Colorfield (2011-2012)
With COLORFIELD Claire Dorn pays homage to the work of the painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970), one of the leading figures in abstract expressionism. The variant that Rothko practised is known as ‘color field painting’, for the large fields of flat, solid colour that it uses to be able to place maximum emphasis on the colour itself. For Rothko the color field was a means of rendering complex concepts in as simple a way as possible. In a similar way, Dorn is seeking a powerful, abstract photography.
