Vicky Colombet in her studio, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Fernberger.
Vicky Colombet Finds a Sense of ‘Home’ in Her Aerial-Inspired Paintings
“French-American artist Vicky Colombet (b. 1953) has made the flight between New York and Paris many times. But the sight of the mammoth waves of the Atlantic Ocean from tens of thousands of feet above, abstracted into inky scribbles and scrawls in shades of blue has never failed to amaze her.
The vastness of these elemental forces— the ocean, the cosmos, the earth itself—is what inspires much of the artist’s enigmatic abstractions. Earlier this month, the artist opened “Flying Home” her West Coast solo debut at Fernberger Gallery in Los Angeles. Colombet presents some of her most nuanced works to date, monumental pieces made of pigment, oil, and alkyd on linen in a limited palette of blues and blacks.”
—Katie White for Artnet