Professor Kristen Letts Kovak‘s solo show, “Out of Order” is on view at the Rosewood Art Center in Kettering, OH, Apr 22 to May 25.
Kovak uses the medium of paint to investigate the precarious states of resolution that is a direct outgrowth of living with a rare chronic illness. With these lushly colored abstract paintings on wood panels, Kovak maintains a threadbare link to her background in her representational art background. She writes, her “artworks investigate connections between visual, perceptual and cognitive patterning….us[ing] surface articulations to explore the interplay of representation and abstraction—estranging the familiar and naturalizing the non-objective.”