Marina Savashynskaya Dunbar (1992)

Translucencies

Marina’s paintings fuse fluid abstraction, atmospheric gradients, and material experimentation within the lineage of Light and Space, Colour Field, and post-minimalist abstraction.

Their visual language is one of translucency and motion—paint behaving as refracted light. Sand mixed with acrylic creates a tension between matte and gloss, recalling Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique but with greater optical precision.

The palette shifts between aquatic blues, dawn yellows, and iridescent violets, evoking Turrell and Eliasson’s treatment of light as substance. Gradients echo both natural atmospheres and digital interference.

Forms oscillate between landscape and pure abstraction, suggesting aerial views or fluid topographies while resisting definition. This tension between the organic and the synthetic gives the work its strength, as it explores the ethereal.

Collectively, Marina’s paintings delve into the notion of perception—how depth and movement arise from layered translucencies, allowing surfaces to become atmosphere and gestures to turn into light.

November 2025