Stefanie Ullmann is primarily an abstract painter. Her work is often minimal in character, consisting of no more than a few gestures or strokes, some basic shapes and a reduced colour palette. Though sparse, her canvases play with the materiality of paint, sometimes applied directly from the tube, and sometimes layered on thickly with a trowel. Occasionally she incorporates other materials in her work such as silver foil. The tension she creates between the shimmering surfaces of her paintings and their concrete materiality places her work within the modernist and even minimalist tradition.Yet underlying these formal concerns, is the relation to the everyday. Ullmann paints from her experiences, whether this is a walk in the sunshine, a visit to a museum or the sight of a magnolia tree in bloom. Reminiscent of female abstract painters, she is interested in developing a modernist language that is both celebratory and evocative, casual and direct.

- Dr. Magdalena Wisniowska -