After the Fall of Icorus

Paper towels and corigated cardboard mounted on canvas. 48 X 48 inch. John Andro Avendano works in layers more often than not,building texture and form from overlapping lines and swirls of color,energizing the canvas with collage. The series after the Fall of Icarus is a departure: wet-mounted paper towelsdyed in the colors of a northwest winter. They make the simplest of landscapes,solid only by saturation, anchored only by a horizon line. Each canvas is amood suspended—an expression that passes over a face for the briefest of moments.The effect is quiet but expansive, open, tranquil; a deep breath after beingharried. The materials, too, are a comfort: made to pick up messes, to dryclean hands, to set things in order. Looking at