Looking At You (For Bonnard),No. 1 - Limited Edition of 5 Artwork

Looking At You (For Bonnard), Limited Edition of 5 Available on canvas or paper (price shown in primary listing is for canvas.) 30" square canvas prints (as shown in room photos) are on 1.25 or 2" deep stretcher bars, image is sprayed with a satin UV protection and mirror printed on all sides for frameless or float framing as desired. $2,000. Other available sizes and substrate: 30x30" edition of 5 on paper, 1,850.00 24x24" edition of 5 on paper, $1300 24 x 24" edition of 5 on canvas, $1,550 I am happy to work with you with other methods of framing and mounting for customized interiors installations. From a series called "Immersions." These pieces began with photographs taken at the beach on the first summer weekends after the lifting of pandemic lock down. It was exhilarating to see people embracing sunlight, the joy of living in the body, and the transformations of water after a dark winter. This piece combines various photographs into a landscape of industrial surface, contemporary color and figures moving in space that is both real and dreamed. The visual approach is inspired by a recent exhibit of Monet's work at Étretat. The selection of paintings in this exhibit included early photographs and essays about the interplay between painters and photographers in the Impressionist movement. It is a dialog that continues here, with modern photography and a painter's mind. Where the French Impressionists smeared a figure with paint thinned with turpentine, the modern photographer might look through a lens darkly, or with so much depth of field the world becomes entirely emotion. When I first studied Impressionism as a painter my favorite artist in this group was Bonnard, with his wild vibrating color and uncertain clarity of figure and field. This image continues the long arc of translation, from painting to photography and back through history.