Margarita Gluzberg b. 1968
85 1/2 x 61 1/2 in
"Green Influence 1960/2020 Mix" is from a suite of works in pastels and coloured pencil that Gluzberg relates to as drawings. Here magical spheres and other forms float across the picture plane in archival colours and materials. The vintage pastels used in the series include highly pigmented American sets from the 1960s, more subdued sticks from 1970s Eastern Europe, and then the artist’s own childhood assortment.
Gluzberg conceives of this method of making as a kind of time-travel, which is significant: individual colour choices are made intuitively, but ultimately determined within the archival nature of what is available within her vintage sets both saved and collected.