There are wonderful contradictions in these works of Deborah Roettinger, offering a clue to their unique seductiveness and power.

She has taken silk (ephemeral, floating) and painted it, folding it, crushing, pressing, opening, and ironing it - discovering fields and rivers of moving colour which can be livened again with touches of gold or flecks of red or washes of grey. Then, with a meticulous eye and hand she cuts and mounts and shapes this rich fabric into a strongly abstracted personal story.

These images strike us from a distance - at times compellingly still, at times shimmering with movement, at times ominious, even slyly vertiginous, but always with an architectural order that belies the detailed lushness and secret play of light and colour that unfolds as we look closer. Here is order and play: abstraction and narrative - opposites that marvellously hold and delight us.

Gwyn Hanssen Piggot OAM

 

 

 

Deborah Roettinger

142 Pearson Road Obum Obum, Qld., 4309, Australia
Tel: 61-7-5463-7071 Cell: 61-4-0063-7071
dhroettinger@skymesh.com.au
www.dhroettinger.com

Medium - Acrylic on silk

About the Artist

Resides and works in Obum Obum, Queensland.
Studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and sculpture at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.
Taught fibre sculpture at Pacific Basin Textile Arts in Berkelely, California and at the Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The first showing of her linen fibre sculptures was at the faculty gallery at the Instituto Allende in 1972. Her second exhibition of three dimentional silk sculptures was at the William Hoey Gallery in Austin, Texas in 1975.
Worked mostly on commissioned works of acrylic on silk and linen until 1998. Since late 1970, the artist has created over 60 works in this medium.

Exhibited at The Boonah Regional Art Gallery – January, 2006.
Exhibited at Libby Edwards Gallery – Brisbane – May 26 -June 18, 2006.
Exhibited at Pinnacles Gallery, Thuringowa, Qld. – 2006 Regional Art Award Exhibition - Oct. 2006
Exhibited at Schubert Galleries– Marina Mirage, Gold Coast
Currently exhibiting at Tokonoma Gallery, Mudgeeraba, Queensland

Some Major Commissions

The Landmark Building, Palos Verdes, Califrornia (Lobby)
Arquitectonica Architects, Miami, Florida – Two pieces for lobby of the Atlantis Building
Corporate offices of GMS Film Productions, Beverlfy Hills, California ( 7 pieces)
The President of Toyota Motorworks, USA – Mr. & Mrs. Ishisaka – Triptic for private collection.
Camarillo Country Club, California (Lobby)
Gendra International, Miami, Florida – Four pieces in lobby, hallway and conference room.
Wolfgang Puck’s Granita Restaurant, Malibu, California
The Meriken Plaza Hotel, Kobe, Japan (Lobby)
Claudia Garcia Interiors, Miami, Florida – Five wall sculptures for Thai Tony’s Restaurant
Banco Nacional de Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
The Hai-Lai Hotel and Business Centre, Kaoshiung, Taiwan
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Gordich, Miami Beach, Florida
HRH The Crown Prince of Tonga
The Sultan of Brunei – One piece for office in his Boeing 727 aircraft
Private collection of Kerry Marcus, Houston, Texas
Private collection Alvaro and Linda Pascotto, Malibu, California
Gulfstream Aerospace, Long Beach, California
The Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington D.C. – One piece for private collection
Dassault Falconjet, Long Beach, California
Private collection of Claudia Boucher, Buenos Aires
The Contico, (motor yacht), Montecarlo
Hank Fieger – Sydney – Private collection
Managed Financial Solutions, Brisbane, Australia (four pieces)  

 

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