Primary Structures Painting

“Primary Structures” was part of a solo exhibition titled “Before the Sun Goes Down” that showed at The Vernon Public Art Gallery (May 27 - July 12, 2019.) “Before the Sun Goes Down” alludes to the period at which the sun crosses the horizon - A magical time of day, when bright unpredictable colours at their height of vibrancy dance with sharply contrasting shadows to create vistas that seem to come alive. With this exhibition, I had likewise endeavoured to capture a heightened sensation of visual acuity. Juxtapositions of hard edged rectangular shapes, imbued with intense unbroken colours, simplify spacial relationships and emphasize the flatness of the pictorial plane. My use of anomalous colours distinguishes adjoined shapes, while arrays of subtly unnatural colour gradations act to deepen the illusion of superimposition. Additionally, by arranging the rectangles slightly askew and distributing them unevenly, a quality of fluidity was added to these open compositions. “Primary Structures” is a reconfigurable diptych. Included with the picture is a card illustrating alternative artist preferred arrangements which fit a variety of structural contexts. This painting has two (36”X48”) panels, is acrylic on clear gessoed 10 duck canvas. It’s signed on the side and back, unframed, stretched, wired, and ready to hang. Being that this work can be irregular in shape the outside perimeter dimensions of the image (as shown) occupies an area of 36” high by 96” wide.