A grid of nine squares each in a selected, painterly solid -- white, cobalt blue, lime green, buttercup yellow, washed pink and maroon -- fills this bold, square canvas. The edges of the squares fit tight but do not merge with their neighbors. The centre square in an icy green-white appears to breathe and pulse outward from the structured composition of this acrylic painting titled Winter Grid.

Ristvedt, RCA, is a master colorist and an established icon of Canadian post-painterly abstraction. She began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and featured at the National Gallery of Canada. She was chosen for prestigious exhibitions in Winnipeg, Paris and Lausanne. By 1969, Ristvedt was sharing a studio with Jack Bush and showing with the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. Over her long career, Ristvedt has had over 50 solo exhibitions. Her abstract, acrylic canvases are held in private, corporate and public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Harvard University. Barry Lord observed in Art in America (1969) that Ristvedt’s paintings were “…more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.”

Ristvedt is represented exclusively by Oeno Gallery.