landscape vi

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Comment by Resident Curator on January 13, 2015 at 7:52pm

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For me, painting sunsets and spectacular skies can be problematic as the renditions almost always fall short of the natural splendor and phenomena - there’s always something lost, I imagine, in the translation of light and scale.  But despite or perhaps because of this interplay between “big sky”, and inconsequential ground, I’m very attracted to this Landscape (vi) . The streaking pink and powder blues remain ethereal, rather than reduced to opaque pigment; light moves vertically through the picture.  The small outcropping of modern society- as dictated through power lines and structures enhance the visual and psychological contrast between the natural and man-made world.   Landscape 9 also strikes a fine balance between its understated and heightened/intensified hues against an ordinary ground.  These pieces are very provocative, and for me vacillate between quiet awe and cataclysmic events.