Claude Temin-Vergez
Drawing, installation, painting
Claude Temin-Vergez graduated from Central St Martin's School of Art in 1998 and the Royal Academy Schools in 2001. She was awarded the Stanley Picker Fellowship in painting in 2002 and the Abbey Fellowship in painting at the British School at Rome in 2005. In 2021 she was selected for the Wells Art Contemporary.
She has exhibited widely internationally and nationally.
Temin-Vergez’s work implies doubling, or twinned forms, where the surface operates as both an articulated field which mirrors itself in various forms of symmetries, and a place where individual refined traceries can be both lost and unravelled in the process of looking. Vergez develops forms that traverse identifications: from abstract gesture, through baroque ornament, to formations of nature. Both the surface and image are, in this sense, metamorphic in their nature with forms constructed from a linearity that traces a force across the canvases.
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Influenced by Islamic design, art nouveau, and late modernist abstraction, Claude Temin-Vergez’s drawings, paintings, and installations develop on the traditions of ornamentation and its relations to mysticism, taboo, and the sublime. Vergez’s work is informed by her extensive and daily drawing practice of geometric formation, found images and from nature, which she intuitively deconstructs and embellishes to create motifs which are simultaneously mesmerisingly complex and classically graceful. The line becomes the vehicle of meaning itself. A metaphor for the gesture that the hand makes or by extension the body moving into space.
Executed with a certain clinical austerity – self-consciously stark surfaces, artificial colour palettes, and attenuated brushwork —her canvases evolve as exquisite luculent mandalas that suggest futuristic microcosms, equally biological and technological, beautiful ‘specimens’ of compelling presence.
(From Patty Ellis artist, Artist and Writer)
