Attraction

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Comment by Resident Curator on July 11, 2011 at 5:48pm

Curator’s Comment:

 

Attraction seems like a painting for painters. I am very attracted to the forthright painterly application of pigment, and I particularly enjoy the edgier tension in this piece.  The red shape, slightly amorphous but forceful nonetheless, pushes into the darker diagonal, creating a more saturated edge.  This point of contact creates an appealing pressure, or apprehensive conflict.  The pure psychology of form and color come together in a beautiful friction.  Your other pieces on the site seem to exhibit more of a color field approach to the figure/ground relationship.  They contain a similar muscular confidence, but without the discordant opposition I enjoy so much in this piece.  I’m sure the scale of all of these works enhances their inherent monumentality, and viewing them on a small scene is a less than ideal substitute.