Melinda Laszczynski: Soft Spots

Artist Melinda Laszczynski has been painting on found lenticular prints in which the image changes as the viewer moves around the painting, or reflective glitter film. Materials are added to be simultaneously attractive and off-putting to create tension and contradiction. Thick acrylic, glitter, or collaged paint skins are built up on and around the painting surface. She thinks of these paintings as portals; tactile spaces that shift. Laszczynski's paintings often become figurative by referencing the body or reflecting the viewer into the surface.