PILLAR OF CREATION Painting

Acrylic and Pigments on Canvas. From the series 'TEN BILLION LIGHT YEARS IN DIAMETER', MUSEO DE ARTE DE PUERTO RICO, RJ REYNOLDS GALLERY-8/16/2012-12/16/12 "A QUESTION THAT CERTAINLY COMES TO MIND AT THIS POINT, ESPECIALLY AFTER CONSIDERING THAT THESE WORKS COMPOSED OF COLORED POINTS SEEM INSISTENTLY SIMILAR TO MICROBIOLOGICAL CULTURES, AND THAT THE ARTIST HAS DEVISED TITLES BY REFERENCING TERMS FROM ASTROPHYSICS, IS WHETHER THEY ARE IN FACT ABSTRACT. THE QUESTION CEASES TO BE RHETORICAL THE MINUTE WE CAN ISOLATE CLEAR EVIDENCE OF ANY “DETECTABLE ENVIRONMENT.” HOWEVER, UNLIKE ABSTRACT ART—WHETHER RIGOROUSLY GEOMETRIC, PLATONIC, LYRICAL OR GESTURAL—FRENCH’S PAINTINGS ALWAYS SEEM TO BE GROUNDED IN SOME ORGANIC REALITY. THEY POINT INEVITABLY TO AN OBJECT, AND ARE THUS SIGNS OF SOME EXISTING FORM, EVEN IF WE DO NOT IMMEDIATELY PERCEIVE IT. DESPITE THE FREEDOM WITH WHICH THE OBJECT HAS BEEN EXPRESSED—NOT BY LITERALLY COPYING IT, BUT BY INTERPRETING OR EVEN INVENTING IT—SOMETHING ALREADY EXISTING IS NONETHELESS INDICATED. AS WITH HIS PLANTS AND FLOWERS, FRENCH DOES NOT SIMPLY IMITATE THE CONSTELLATIONS. INSTEAD HE INVENTS, RECREATES, AND IMAGINES THEM. HIS RECENT WORKS DRAW UPON THE LATEST PHOTOGRAPHY OF OUTER SPACE. THESE IMAGES OFFER AN EXTRAORDINARY PANORAMA OF UNUSUAL COLORS AND FORMS THAT ARE QUITE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE OBSERVE OF THE HEAVENS WITH THE NAKED EYE. BASED ON THIS EVIDENCE, THE ARTIST’S INTERPRETATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE MAY SERVE AS A HARBINGER FOR THE ASTOUNDING IMAGES THAT WE WILL SEE IN THE FUTURE”. Juan Carlos López Quintero Catalog ‘Ten Billion Light Years In Diameter’ Curator, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2012

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35 W x 44 H x 2 D in

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