And She Spoke Painting

In his young thirty-six years of the study, practice and exploration of art, Lyle Newby combines the ageless technique of artists: That of innovation in media. With the modern person’s desire to reduce the footprint of life and the material left behind time, Newby delivers. With a conscientious insight to the form of useful material debris, items forgotten or thought of as having no further purpose, Newby seizes his opportunities to retake what the modern world once offered—artifacts for some future archaeologists. He integrates them to create lines, shapes, forms, curves, texture and the splendor of his own colors, to create canvas with dimensions. Some of those dimensions get raised or embedded, but they all tell his own style of story by visual. These paintings and canvas reliefs, these demi-sculptures, make their own impression of stories in life, and provide an audience with either a warm, subjective aesthetic of emotional recall, or bring a cool, fresh enjoyment of intelligent insight that embraces the new stage of the world beginning in its art. The purpose of which the audience has yet to divine by its own experience. At this point of life and in its enduring change, Lyle Newby belongs truly to himself, and his work inhabits a realm of this world that everyone shares. Seeing the new era of the super-real in painting and materials, and how one person, one artist, and many audiences, attach each to the other, the paintings cause a rethinking. Whether or not one believes that purpose and meaning in the material existence can or cannot transform itself toward a better whole, in making the once old one Qs into a brand reformed, Lyle Newby adds his contribution to this speculation in his current work. Specifically, what Lyle Newby offers comes in the form of an opportunity to Qescape, for minutes or moments, out of the desperation of collapse, and into a conscious use of the world, one that might possibly enhance the role of art and audience in intelligent evolution.