"Stillleben, die sich gesalzen haben"
Exhibit ”Incontri, Begegnungen” (“Encounters”)
Treffpunct Kunst, Ottobrunn October 2002
Summarizing Tina Gaumer Ingraham’s paintings as a collection, about the “aesthetics of salt shakers”, would be undeservedly acerbic and would not do justice to the high artistic level of her exhibit.
In Tina Gaumer Ingraham’s still lifes, encounters with the profane objects of everyday life turn into an aesthetic examination of shapes and colors. Through the masterful encounter with light, a saltshaker of transparent glass turns into a solitary experience with an ambience that is surprisingly changeable: clear, transparent, and beguiling in its simplicity.
It is the strong effect of light (and also of its absence) that is so striking in the small format depictions of Italian houses. Serving as eyes of a house, windows have a life of their own, either alive and glowing or dead and vacant, and dead matter comes to life in the play of colors and light.
Partial translation from the review appearing in:
Suddentsche Zeitung; October 22, 2002 Roswitha Grosse
