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Painting, Household on Canvas
Size: 72 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in
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As with all my paintings, 2021 #1 is inspired by the great mid-century abstract painters such as Frankenthaler, Pollock, Still, Mitchell. Is was made on a prepared gallery-style canvas and made with latex house paint from Home Depot and Lowes. At least one of the colors was an 'Oops'/mistint can. What you see in this painting is the 4th layer. I've painted over paintings a number of times, when what came first on the canvas simply didn't measure up. The plus side of this is that canvases such as this have a texture to them which moves them beyond 'pure' abstract expressionism, lending them a distressed / post-modern element. This was a hard one. I almost gave up on this canvas after the 3rd layer simply did not yield a painting. I almost tossed the canvas as my first failure at the 72" x 48" size, then decided to try once more. Finally, with the basic swirls here of black, yellow, red and blue, I found something that I liked; the energy in the colors, the balance and the wonderful way the black paint 'plays' with the other colors. This one's a keeper.
Painting:Household on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:72 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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The inspiration for my paintings comes from artists who set the stage for abstract expressionism, such as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Monet, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Georgia O’Keefe, and those who made AbEx one of the most important artistic movements within modernism, including Jackson Pollock, Norman Lewis, Clyfford Still, Lee Krasner, Ad Reinhardt, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Willem de Kooning, Kazuo Shiraga, Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter. Most of these great painters spent parts of their careers creating figurative art. Pollock is known to have said “I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time.” Our eyes cannot resist searching a work of art for familiar images, but my work is intended as non-representational. Just as Pollock did with most of his ‘action’ paintings I date and number by way of naming my work, to provide as little preconception to the viewing experience as possible. With a debt as well to process artists I select colors, sheens and viscosities and watch how they interact on canvas. Sometimes the magic doesn’t work; I’ve re-worked canvases a number of times. When it does I’m fascinated by the richness of color in the interference patterns and the strong resulting sense of motion and form. At times I see these paintings as details in themselves; parts of larger works that are only hinted at, orders of magnification which in turn can be magnified, allowing for ever greater detail and delicacy to emerge.
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