Half Circle Painting, black & white #3

Claudia Comte’s Green Background and Pink Triangles (Triangular painting); Half Circle Painting, black & white #3; and Indigo Blush (Cocktail painting) serve as elegant and playful interludes along the fourth-floor hallway of Dimensional’s Charlotte office. Although not commissioned, these three modular paintings are perfectly scaled to the individual recessed alcoves where they hang, a serendipitous installation in alignment with Comte’s preference for location-specific artworks. The static, shaped canvases—four green and pink triangles, a black-and-white fan-shaped semicircle, and eight vertical panels in blue and pink—are painted or assembled in various arrangements that seem to convey motion. In her practice, Comte translates traditional materials, like paint on canvas, wood, and marble, into an abstract visual language characterized by hard-edged geometric forms, a reductive color palette, and optical patterns. Inspired by mid-20th century minimalism, abstraction, and op art, Comte aims to “reactivate modern shapes” while giving them a “kind of human character, like something out of a cartoon.”[1]

[1] The Brooklyn Rail