A master draftswoman, Chervin’s unique practice is characterized by precise mark-making that the artist works and reworks for what often stretches into multiple years. Over time, these carefully rendered graphic traces build into dense layers that seem to hover on the edge of entropy, yet remain balanced by Chervin’s controlled restraint. Drawing viewers into their psychologically-fraught atmospheres, the resulting artworks create a sensation of deep perspectival space that at times conjure forth landscapes, emotional states, or haunting presences.
Selected work
Untitled I
Charcoal, pencil & ink on paper
150 x 105 cm
2018-19
Catalina Chervin
Untitled II
Charcoal, pencil & ink on paper
77 x 57 cm
30.31 x 22.44 in
2018-19
Untitled III
Charcoal, pencil & ink on paper
76 x 56 cm
2018-19
Catalina Chervin
Untitled II
Charcoal, pencil & ink on paper
150 x 105 cm
59.5 x 41.33 in
2017-19