Tamara Gonzales’s largest painting to date, Cosmic Recess, certainly takes up space. The Brooklyn-based painter is known for her intricate, patterned compositions, in which she uses white space as a form. Open patches of canvas are not “negative spaces,”as understood in Western art history, but pivotal in-between passages in which all of her painterly elements converge. Gonzales does the same in Cosmic Recess, now on view at Providence College Galleries as part of its “On the Wall” series. While the painting is indeed on the wall, it is also on the floor and on the edging up towards the ceiling. Its scale welcomes viewers into the painting via its in-between spaces while reminding us of our place within the larger cosmos. Read More