Staring up through the leaves of a tree...
A sea of faces on a crowded street...
Drops of water creating rings
that spread, collide and intersect...

All of these images reflect on the repetition and balance of a perpetually cyclical world in Christine Bespalec-Davis’s newest series.

Striving for a ”controlled randomness”, Christine Bespalec-Davis allows her hand to move and flow with the energy of the person or situation she is capturing. Sometimes soft and meditative and others frantic and sharp, these linear paintings extend her abstract work to a more expressionistic level.

During their creation, each mark is placed on the page personifying memories, symbolizing faces and layered in replication of dream and memory. Both just slightly out of focus, reach, and understanding but part of our everyday interactions.

Christine Bespalec-Davis has been exhibiting her artwork since 2001 and is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Influenced by expressionist and cubist paintings, she offers a perception of that which is familiar and close to ones heart but also complex, mysterious and not fully defined. Faces become organic shapes. Lines transform into rivers and pathways. That which is familiar translates into basic color and shape, like a memory not fully tangible, yet full of life, purpose and emotion.