Judith
Grassl
Judith Grassl lives and works in Munich (1985). Her paintings are multiple layers: overlays of colors and forms, different views, virtual and physical rooms. Image fragments merge into visual spaces with which she stages questions about time and change. Temporally offset perspectives meet on a two- and three-dimensional level. In a kind of slow motion, she examine's different visual levels of reality in the process of painting.
In doing so, she researches the reception and symbolic power as well as mutual interpersonal relationships of image fragments and illuminate their social context and its transformation.The process of creating her paintings is based on the principle of collage. It allows her to create a variety of dimensions in her images, parallelize different perspectives and create a new connection between these levels. Grassl use three-dimensional collages of historical images and other visual material as sketches, cut up, deconstruct and re-stage, leaving partly painterly structures and partly fragmentary forms on white paper. In that way, she balances between time levels and lighting conditions, figuration and abstraction as well as clarity and ambiguity.