Frederika Roeder: Line or Color and Color or Line
Frederika Roeder devotes herself to abstraction — a genial and reassuring kind of abstraction, one that relies on expanses of fervid color determined by an unceasingly bright palette and supported by a similarly vivacious vocabulary of line — late Matisse, you might say, brittle but kinetic, with a broader formal vocabulary and more citric a palette. With Matisse as forefather, Roeder eases the friction between art — abstract art, still capable of frightening many — and viewer.
Documentation shows she speaks to more than just our eyes. Shape and hue chase each other around Roeder's art like puppies from the same litter, their exertions tempered by the profundity substantiating Roeder's engagement with non-objective form. Both wit and gravitas anchor Roeder's approach to abstraction. Her theater of the eye assumes surprising breadth.
