C (19)

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Comment by Resident Curator on January 25, 2016 at 8:01pm

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This series of four surreal paintings just came to my attention, though I realize they were initially posted some time ago.  The piece enumerated C (19) feels the most resolved in terms of surface handling and spatial complexity; I particularly admire the suspension of visual weight and illusion of semi-transparent structural planes. The cloud-like patterns of analogous blue-green and violet hues that float through the composition lift the objects and assist in the mood of dreamy construction.  I also find it interesting that the planar structures appear to be in the process of assembling or transformation, as they contain somewhat haphazard trajectories.  The more intuitive approach is unique among surrealist works that illustrate mathematical paradoxes through architectural forms.  The paintings that contain abstracted figures seem decidedly more gestural in their overall aesthetic. The previous piece (P 39) approaches mark marking in a very different and loose, expressionistic manner. The silhouetted bodies look to be both trapped by colliding window planes, and yet possibly able to transverse through the spaces based on the ghost image of the female on the extreme left.  I find myself wondering if the choice of a more painterly sensibility and evidence of the artists hand is intentional in communicating an emotion, or universal human condition.