The Eccentric & The Ordinary | Halle Rittgers

Halle Rittgers is a Twin Cities based artist. Her work is a visual narrative of life expressed through abstracted color and form on raw canvas. Her paintings explore the dynamic relationship between chance and intention, meditation and play, and color and texture. While pursuing her degree in Fine Art she began using natural dyes and second hand textiles, which led her to her present style of using stained washes and a lexicon of marks and shapes on canvas. Growth and contemplation are present in the process as she makes compositional choices, working in layers on paper and raw canvas. Each painting starts with playful experimentation as the brush meets the canvas, and advances into more refined exploration. Her choice of mark making and her use of recycled materials from past work hint at distant memories in many of her final pieces.

The Eccentric & The Ordinary is a visual study of the mystical and mundane moments of life. Through her painting practice, she is constantly striving to become more present and to find intrigue in the repetitive and familiar, noting that each small mark and moment in the process plays an important role in the final piece. These ideas run parallel to her exploration of daily life through liturgy, small practices, and the ordinary habits that form us as humans. She works to articulate these mundane moments of life as sacred occasions and celebrations that form us and become part of our story. The overlapping methodology in the work tells a dynamic story through the process of the painting itself.

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