Looking for Answers

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Comment by Resident Curator on August 8, 2013 at 3:44pm

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The dexterous interplay of monotype and collage beautifully melds into Looking For Answers.  I like that the multiple passages of faint text float between opaquely printed areas of cool tinted blue and warmer textured surfaces.  There also seems to be finely tuned attention towards the vertical versus horizontal movement in the piece, as striated, grooved lines readily and evenly cross both axis.  The seated reader in the bottom left section formally balances the cameo of the female figure in the top center; both impart a feeling of nostalgia and introspection to the quiet piece.  The warm tonality enhances this vision. I do find it interesting that you can vacillate freely between more representational pastoral scenes and even more abstracted bold (red) compositions.  I see subtle threads of the same voice in the approximate grid like vertical/horizontal organization, but the formal properties are otherwise quite disparate.