judith duquemin_copyright 2022_painting for reconstruction no 9_acrylic on canvas_60 x 80 cm

Dr Judith Duquemin

Structural, systematic painter

Code-defined geometric painting

Contact: judith@judithduquemin.com

Judith Duquemin’s long-held interest in the psychology of the act of painting is supported by a cross-disciplinary calling that enables her to explore the art and science of human perception in unorthodox ways. Her constructive, systematic approach to geometric abstraction provides the mechanism for articulating alternate modes of thinking and seeing, through the creation of geometric codes derived from irregular polyhedral grids. Grids convert to planes, then multidimensional structures via a preference for hardedge minimal palettes. Non-periodic, self-modifying geometric patterns made up of regular and irregular shapes known to the field of Particle Physics, provide Duquemin with an alternate math for depicting the illusion of depth. This technique supports a research-based approach to practice, which allows Duquemin to override habits of flatness, orthogonality, repetition, and symmetry persistent in contemporary examples of reductive art. The result is often an estimate of form that appears to remain in a state of inconstancy. Duquemin’s technique requires a different way of perceiving an image, appealing to her interest in the neuroscience of human perception, and other areas of science.