About the artist
Eden Vence
Charcoal drawings and canvas paintings. Figures, mostly, in changing light.
Looking comes first.
Eden Vence draws and paints figures. A face at rest, a hand, a body turned away. The hope is that a person's interior shows without being spelled out.
The marks stay in. A rubbed-out line, a dent in the paper, a thumbprint of pigment. They belong to the picture.
The materials do some of the talking.
Charcoal is fast and blunt. Graphite catches the light. Paint on canvas has time to settle into weather.