Zander Blom; South African 1982-; Untitled ,2016
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Notes : 2016 marked a pivotal moment of chromatic and compositional exploration for Zander Blom within his broader abstract practice. This untitled painting exemplifies his New Paintings period, distinguished by raw canvas backgrounds disrupted by dense, almost geological accumulations of pigment. With its distinctive bands of colour, most notably the swirling strata of blue, red, yellow, and green, this piece demonstrates the artist's ongoing interest in the visual friction between modernist flatness and painterly excess. Blom's use of layered impasto and unpredictable patterns invokes the gesture of action painting, while also suggesting a digital glitch aesthetic, a tension he often exploits to destabilise form. As a whole, this work stands as a bold example of Blom's evolving abstraction, capturing the dynamic interplay between spontaneity, control, and the painter's body as an expressive force.
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