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Comment by Resident Curator on May 26, 2017 at 8:53pm

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Perhaps it’s because I just finished reading James Elkins’ What Painting Is that I see alchemy in this pure painterly expression.  The seemingly untitled piece is noted to be of a modest 2’x2’ scale, and yet has a spectacular presence and raw sense of the properties of paint.  Rather than create tension between two straight complementary hues, the isolation of the purplish-violet splotch is like a dark bruise on the edge of the golden yellow field.  It forms a faint reference to horizon, while simultaneously carrying the traditional visual weight of a figure against a pictorial ground.  I also appreciate the pale drips below the shape that subtly and effectively move its contrasting pigment into the other section.   It carries a beautiful feeling of movement and sublime transition.