Number 34 (Shards) 2009 Painting

Steven Plount (b.1952) is an American artist based in the Pacific Northwest. He is known for reductive geometric abstraction in the Neo Romantic genres of Tonalism, Landscape, and Gestural Abstraction. Plount’s work manifests decades of inquiry into the materiality of the painted object through a process of minimal abstract painting. His compositional structures are imbued with the touch of hand and brush in a calligraphic and painterly manner and are achieved using sensuous color and various gestures of the hand. The subtle and soft matte glow of the Beeswax offers a translucent surface that invites the eye to “look into it” materializing a unique vision for each viewer. The surface of the beeswax and its translucent nature emphasizes the natural transparencies and depths of the gesture.