Shimmer 7, 2019

"Shimmer 7" by Denise Driscoll is a large-scale acrylic painting on canvas with layers of brightly colored interlocking forms that float over a flat black background. Each looping shape is covered with metallic and iridescent dots that sparkle with energy that seems to be lit from within. The 76 x 66 x 1.5 inch painting continues around the gallery-wrapped sides and is signed on the reverse. Driscoll writes: my “Shimmer” paintings begin with the notion that all living things—plants, animals and humans—are connected in an intricate mesh of being, yet each exists at the center of their own particular world. These simultaneous centers of lived experience swirl within and around us, piercing, enveloping, and permeating with or without our notice. Each painting is an imaginary map of exchange, a playful and hopeful record of our entanglement with other beings and each other.