Spherical Aberrations features two-dimensional works celebrating the human eye’s love of round forms. Using color, light and shadow, the artist teases the viewer’s eye to perceive three-dimensional forms enclosed in a two-dimensional frame.

Spherical Aberrations

Wendy is a model I used for a prospective series of Women on Motorcycles. We also did a series of experimental poses using chiaroscuro lighting.

Wendy

A couple of generations ago, folks imagined that taking psychedelic drugs somehow gave them perceptions of a “higher reality” unavailable to normal mortals. Better understanding of how human perceptual systems work has shown that to be bogus.

These visual and auditory illusions, however, can really be quite beautiful, and the psychological illusions can be quite enjoyable. My Psychedelia series paintings celebrate the beauty inherent in them.

Psychedelia

The Yin/Yang is the central image of Taoism. It represents the union of light and dark, male and female, good and bad -- in short the unity of all things, which is the central tenet of Taoism. Yin Yang 1 is the start of a series including airbrush paintings of various sizes, with different colors, and different treatments.

Charles Masi