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Kooness

Macha Poynder

1962
Moscow, Russian Federation

19 Works exhibited on Kooness

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Paris

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Works by Macha Poynder

A Day is an Island

2024

Paintings , Acrylic

162 x 158cm

9435,00 €

Why Do Nightingales Sing?

2024

Paintings , Acrylic

165 x 154cm

7763,00 €

Presque Rien Presque Tout

2023

Paintings , Acrylic

162 x 222cm

8500,00 €

Fall In Bloom

2023

Paintings , Acrylic

165 x 220cm

10152,00 €

Answered Prayers

2024

Paintings , Acrylic

164 x 227cm

10152,00 €

Anthology of Passion

2023

Paintings , Acrylic

165 x 232 x 0.1cm

10152,00 €

We'll Remember Baton Rouge

2015

Paintings , Acrylic

172 x 314 x 0.1cm

15000,00 €

A Crapshot of Luck

2015

Paintings , Acrylic

162 x 262 x 0.1cm

13800,00 €

Macha Poynder is a Russian-born, Paris-based artist whose multi-disciplinary oeuvre is inspired by the philosophies and aesthetic principles of Abstract Expressionism. Education Poynder moved permanently from Moscow to Paris in 1982. In 1983, she studied at the Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and in 1986 earned her degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Technique Though Poynder works in many mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, film, and performance, the heart of her practice has always been drawing and painting.  Her method emphasizes gesture, line, color, and space. Physicality and action are key to her technique. To create her drawings and paintings she expands on the methods of the Abstract Expressionists, blending automatic drawing, performative gestures, and intuitive color choices to express the depths of her unconscious.  She works with multiple layers and colors, creating works that are defined by their complexity and depth. Her textured and painterly surfaces blend areas of apparent randomness where the paint has been splashed or dripped with areas of precision, where the paint has been applied with a deliberate, trained hand. Inspiration Poynder likens her painting process to the creation of music. She considers colors to be sounds, which can form the visual equivalent of chords when placed together in a composition. She seeks rhythm in her compositions, and strives to create a sense of structure.  When she first discovered the work of the Abstract Expressionists like Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, she found a kindred spirit in herself.  She is inspired by the emotive and performative aspect of how those artists worked. She paints sometimes as if she is dancing, with her lines recording the trajectory of her body and her mind.  Most importantly, she is inspired by the quest to forget what she knows, so she can become liberated from her own rules, and let intuition and instinct guide her while she paints. Artist Statement “I am arriving at a point, a threshold, where accumulated knowledge finally leaves, liberated from its control and domination. It turns into pure perception, when the link with the invisible, the unknown, and the infinite becomes clear. The painting can finally spring from its own source. Many things thus become possible. The broadening of perception causes the visual field to broaden, so the territory of a painting grows larger. And so on and so on, like a spiral with no end. Painting is one of the instruments for penetrating the mysteries of the world. Canvas, paper, surface are all windows where the visible and the invisible touch, come together, where the mystery is half open, and where the invisible is revealed.” Exhibitions Poynder has exhibited internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Buci Gallery, Paris, T1 + 2 Gallery, London, and Modernism, San Francisco Collections Her work is in the permanent collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the New York Public Library, and the Rijksmuseum, among others.
Selected One Person Exhibitions 2017  Recent Works, Jean et Danièle Attali, Paris  2016  Le bel aujourd’hui, Villa Seurat, Paris  2015  To Paint Is To Love Again, Galerie de Buci, Paris  2012  Night Paintings, Erco, Paris  2010  Lemon Geisha Conversation, T1+2 Gallery, London  2004  Shopping Bags, Modernism, San Francisco  2003  Shopping Bags, Franck et Fils, Paris  2000  Modernism, San Francisco  1994  Galerie François Mitaine, Paris  Works on Paper, Sixth Annual Fair, La Boétie, Inc. & MJS, New York  1993  Personal Effects, La Boétie, Inc., New York  1993  Galerie J. & J. Donguy, Paris  1991  Monique Contencin, Paris  1990  Yaoundé, Cameroon, West Africa   Selected Group Exhibitions 2013  B.A.B.E. /The Best Artists’ Books and Editors/, Galerie Immanence, Paris  2010  Galerie Drouart, Paris  Born In The USSR, Made In France, Espace des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris  2007  Art Chicago, Modernism, Chicago  2006  Art Chicago, Modernism, Chicago  2005  Galerie Valérie Gérablié, Paris  2004  San Francisco International Art Exposition, Modernism, San Francisco  2003-2004  Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Works on Paper, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco  2003  Hidden Typography, St Bride Library, London  2002  San Francisco International Art Exposition, Modernism, San Francisco  Art Chicago, Modernism, Chicago  2001  Art Chicago, Modernism, Chicago  2000  San Francisco International Art Exposition, Modernism, San Francisco  1999  San Francisco International Art Exposition, Modernism, San Francisco  1998  Galerie W, Paris  1997  Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris  1995  Works on Paper, Seventh Annual Fair, La Boétie, Inc. & MJS, New York  1994  Chez l’un l’autre, Paris  1993  Works on Paper, Fifth Annual Fair, La Boétie, Inc. & MJS, New York  Biennale de Lyon, And They All Do Change the World, Lyon  1988  Downey Museum of Art, Los Angeles  Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China  Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Boston  1986  Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris  Frankfurt Bookfair, Frankfurt  1984  Salon des Indépendants, Paris  1974  My Moscow, Moscow