Deann Mills builds a practice around repeated forms—circles, half-circles, and near-misses—using them as both subject and method. She starts with visual references, then translates them into paintings where the image can multiply, fracture, and drift.
Her circle motifs connect to real-world patterns she encountered from the air: center-pivot irrigation crop rings. In the studio, she experiments with the cleanliness of the mark and the inevitability of imperfection, pushing toward versions that include errors, interruptions, and layered decisions. Works may incorporate circles placed onto older paintings, letting past surfaces and new rotations coexist.
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