fruits and paint

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Comment by Resident Curator on January 24, 2019 at 12:06pm

Curator’s Comments:

Fruits and Paint came up randomly on the site today; it is a pleasure to revisit your work.  I was enamored with your expressive portraits several years ago, and now relish the painterly gesture and broken color present in this still life. I find the title rather amusing in its self-referential focus on media and traditional subject matter. It makes me question if the paint is the true subject of the work. The fleshy orange fruit is a wonderful foil to the deeper red-violet hues in the background, and the semi-transparency of the taller glass vessel.  The dense compaction of objects central to the composition gives way to more open space on the sides, allowing for some visual rest.  I also find it interesting that as solid as the fruit appears, the cloth underneath the forms dissolves into an amorphous, and shifting ground.