Ambera Wellmann

Art Brokerage: Ambera Wellmann Canadian Artist: b. 1982. Ambera Wellmann is a Canadian painter who depicts human bodies in between play and violence, movement and dissolution. She has exhibited internationally at venues including Lulu in Mexico City, the 16th Istanbul Biennale in 2019, MoMA Warsaw, and others. Wellmann's earlier paintings were inspired by various personal experiences of either emotional or erotic encounters. Her figurative approach often showed the horizontal domain of the bed against amorphous bodies pushing against the boundary of social binaries. Wellmann approaches their paintings with "painterly catachresis" which she describes as a process to deliberately use a word, image, or pictorial representation in a way that is not correct.. This manifests through irrational pictorial space and the depiction of an indeterminate number of bodies, genders, species, all without any predetermined visual hierarchy. Wellmann is known for her nested and collage-like painting technique that portrays twisted and abstracted human bodies and animal-like figurines. These techniques are shared by painters Jamian Juliano-Villani and Gregory Edwards. Listings wanted.