Works from November 2025-January 2026 solo exhibtion, A BRIEF PAUSE BETWEEN TWO MYSTERIES. Please contact Tinney Contemporary for inquiries.

Artist Statement:

A Brief Pause Between Two Mysteries

This body of work is a continuation of my internal meditations on the human condition, memory, and the passage of time. Emotional states and fleeting thoughts are made tangible, represented through shapes, color, and texture. While there is an underlying formality to the structure of my paintings, the composition and color placement decisions are intuitively made on the canvas as I work, and traces of the initial decisions are left in the final composition. This pentimento effect symbolizes the lingering past-presence and offers a kind of transparency within the opacity of the painted surface. 

“Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.” Carl Jung

Gallery Statement:

“Silverman's paintings feature hard-edge forms that shift and tessellate across the surface of the canvas. The artist repeats, reflects, and transforms shapes in dynamic compositions that reference architecture and environment. This process is guided by intuition, an exploratory approach to abstraction inextricable from the artist's personal meditative practice. Through this carefully-ordered geometry, traces of the artist's hand remain by virtue of her fluid, responsive approach to composition. Carried out in her own always-evolving color palette, the forms seem to vibrate by virtue of an Albersian color interaction. By exploiting various acrylic mediums and varied opacities, Silverman further complicates these color relations through transparent top layers which allow the history of paint to shine through. This pentimento deepens the shifting composition and color interaction, yielding an inviting sense of depth-distinct from the flatness that is emphasized in much geometric painting. This dynamism invites the viewer to play at pareidolia. What do you see? Vague impressions at first--but the longer you look, things begin to take shape: structures, landscapes, figures. Eyes, ears, arms. The sun setting over the sea, afterimage burned into your retinas, still there when you shut your eyes.”