Tantric Dance Series: 2003-2004  Acrylic on rice paper, 84" x 36"

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The work spreads outwards. Even the recent scroll form, which often assumes a monumental dimension, articulates a state not of furling but of unfurling, swallowing up the space outside. To this space Isham gives her own energy, accumulated in the "psyche of painting" (Malevich's excellent expression). As a result, a new kind of contact with the viewer appears. The viewer now senses on both the intellectual and the tactile levels, a density and a content to the energy fields that arise around Isham's painted objects.

- Alexander Borovsky

       Professor /  Curator at Russian State Museum