Gridish #7 Painting

(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the Saatchi Art search field you will see others in this series come up.) Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with here – a grid of rectangles. Content never interests me much, and I don’t spend time thinking about it. I’m interested in the balance of assonant and dissonant colors, line quality, texture and impasto, push and pull, these sorts of issues. This one is simpler than the others in the "Gridish" series, but has its own charm I think. I started in on the rectangles, and then found myself not wanting to change them because I really liked the picture as it was. I let it rest in my studio for nearly a week, and every time I was tempted to do something to it, I pulled back. Instead I ended up merely building up the white paint within the rectangles and adding a very slight tint to the negative space. I chose a glossy, candy varnish for most of the paintings in this series, including this one. I find these to be happy paintings, in a time that's been less than happy. These have been selling here in New Orleans before I have been able to list them, so I have been pulling out a few to show only online, so that collectors of my work elsewhere and new folks get a chance to see them." (On prior series by the artist): “These paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 Comes pre-framed and ready to hang, in a white floater frame.