Julia Westerbeke draws with the shadows produced by puncturing sheets of paper with untold numbers of pinpricks. Swirls and clusters of these craters bring to mind petri dishes and galaxies, merging images of the microscopic and the astronomical. They invoke a haptic feeling of disintegration: her drawings are created through the evisceration of their material base. ROMAN KALINOVSKI
Julia Westerbeke, Afterimage IV, 2015, Punctured Paper, 32 x 48.5 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.
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