turps and other things to work with

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Comment by Renuka Pillai on January 16, 2015 at 11:19am

Nice compesition

Comment by Adrian Setterfield on January 10, 2015 at 12:11pm

Thank you...your comment is much appreciated

Comment by Resident Curator on January 10, 2015 at 9:12am

Curator’s Comments:

A compellingly constructed still life, Turps and Other Things to Work With  toys with the solidity of form and space.  I enjoy the creamy tints accentuated by the contrasting darker slivers of blue/brown and violet. The pastel color palette and compartmentalization is somewhat reminiscent to me of Richard Diebenkorn’s abstractions, but with sharper tectonic edges and broken up abstraction of geometric elements.  The angular shapes successfully move the eye around the piece in a circular manner, drifting towards the center occasionally to grapple with the more complex configurations.  While the darker shapes carry the majority of the visual weight in the piece, I also appreciate the painterly brushstrokes within the larger sections.  The newer adjacent image, Work Shoes and other implements appears to be composed in the same vein, but is loose and more gestural in its sensibility.