Building It Up

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Comment by Resident Curator on July 3, 2011 at 3:21pm

Curator’s Comment:

 

These are highly enjoyable works- somehow I picture them working best on a moderate or small scale.  While they all display a certain confidence in the solidity of objects, Building it Up seems to most directly reference still life.  I am drawn to the bottle shape, which anchors and grounds the other softly modeled geometric forms.  I particularly like how the boundaries of many of the shapes have a complementary edge- thin blue and green peeks through the edges of the yellow globes.  I also feel the clustering of the three yellow spheres in the upper right gives the illusion of visual suspension- the visual weight pulls the eye towards the top of the composition, which then travels back to the like-shaped and hued sphere at the bottom.  This formal orchestration is also balanced by the overall lighter palette.  These works seem to be about constructing a painting, for an audience of other painters.