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Barbara Coburn is a Michigan-based artist who has found her vision through the merging of the contemporary and the classic. Her flower paintings utilize visual play between positive and negative, bold coloration and high contrast. Her beautiful and iconic pop-based works shows a contemporary abstract edge and a uniformity of style. Furthermore, her work investigates the shapes of flowers, resulting in large multi-chromatic images that float and cluster together, pushing the edges of the paper and creating works that demand your attention by virtue of their extreme sexiness. Her work simplifies and distorts flowers with bold and unnatural colors that incorporate basic geometric and organic forms with a formal purity that is both subtle and mesmerizing.
