The Great Dominions Bernadette Jiyong Frank gestural tradition of painters like

gestural tradition of painters like Cy Twombly

She works with multiple layers and colors

Natural light reflects off the internal painted edges to create a soft diffusion of local colour on either side

Color-making is meditative and methodical

The series merges the quality and feel of traditional fine art prints with the low tech graphics of mid-century media

The Great Dominions Bernadette Jiyong Frank gestural tradition of painters likeThis artwork comes from a series of divergent strategies. One of building and extending the other of reducing and minimizing. These disparate approaches are not a way to impose meanings on the work, but can be viewed as a metaphoric crossroads. This crossroads is about extending the relationship of these different approaches, while at the same time allowing the viewer the liberty of time for further reading of the work. The image making that comes