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Comment by Resident Curator on February 11, 2012 at 1:40pm

Curator’s Comment:  

 

I love this painting- and Laurel’s on the mark comment!  The well-built geometry of the composition provides a solid framework to explore space through unusual cropping/visual interruption. I find the generous amount of white of special interest, as it balances the more detailed explicit and colorful shapes.  The flat patterning that appears throughout the composition, from the central pink vertical scalloping to the organic purple left edge, doesn’t prevent the reading of realistic, atmospheric space. I also see the sign with the monkey face as a dominant graphic element, but his shifted reflection moves my eye throughout the complexly designed picture plane.   Your 1837 Blackmail Building has seems to have a diametrically inverse composition, as the viewer is led into the landscape through the sidewalk on the left, with reflective window fronts on the right. This piece is perhaps even more intriguing, as the viewer isn’t privy to the objects creating the reflective imagery in the storefronts.  Strange little high chroma shapes punctuate the whitish space, while the diminutive Magritte-like figure and his dog are incongruent to the bucolic small town scene.

Comment by Laurel Sternberg on July 13, 2011 at 4:25am

Wow, love this composition, surprising elements and color and the not quite verticles work great with the whole crazy monkey thing.