a tale-telling heart

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Comment by Resident Curator on January 19, 2014 at 9:45am

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I’m intrigued by A Tale Telling Heart, despite the hazy obscurity that distorts the dark subject matter.  Rather than a purely painterly abstraction, the piece almost appears to include photographic imagery without the high resolution we’re accustomed to seeing in the medium.  While oil on canvas is identified in the specs, the tight handling of certain areas like the small water droplet forms on the right side mixes illusionistic space looser expression.  I’m also fascinated by the way the picture plane seems to open up in the upper left quadrant, as if a window or lite opening emerges from the black and umber shadows.  The work entitled Passion is seemingly more readable in its direct gestural sensibility, and it’s only after longer viewing that the lips engulfed in flame like brushstrokes become apparent.