Origin Painting

This is an acrylic painting on panel (1/4" thick Eucaboard mounted to a custom built frame). Panel provides an extremely smooth surface for paint application. The painting is 'wrapped' around the edges of the frame to provide visual interest from all angles. Flat, smooth areas of color are punctuated with thicker lines of paint applied with a palette knife. Gloss varnish is applied to protect the painted surface and edges and to keep the colors as brilliant as when first applied. Hardware for hanging is provided. While interested in exploring relationships between the dominantly employed blue and green tones, and the tints and shades of their complements, I am most occupied with expressing emotion through both color and the dramatically choreographed, sweeping gestures of undulating forms that lure the viewer’s eyes around the broad compositions. The large size also contributes to the viewer’s experience: standing in front of work that’s created at their scale, they are enveloped within the paintings, and transformed from observers to participants. At the start of each piece, I do not seek to illustrate. No shape or color refers to anything particular. However, I hint at possible interpretations of the imagery through their titles, which often refer to planetary phenomena of weather or motion. All practical decisions in the creation of this work are motivated by the pursuance of balance. While I have adopted unbroken color fields as my chosen visual language, I challenge their inherent flatness with contrasting values that fluctuate toward and recede from the viewer. I emphasize spatial relationships through the rhythmic repetition of swelling shapes that, at times, advance right off the frame’s edge, suggesting a continuance of form beyond what is visible. I seek to imply depth with illusions of transparency. Finally, I lend physical dimension to an otherwise smooth, nondescript surface with impasto lines that both emanate from and envelope the central figure; exploring an oscillation between the revelation of the artist’s hand, and the concealment of it.

Painting:Acrylic on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:55 W x 30.5 H x 1.5 D in

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