west_side_salt_6_09

Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on September 1, 2014 at 9:30am

Curator’s Comments:

 

The looping lines in this piece (West Side Salt) provide a welcome release and relief form the more aggressive abraded marks, layering the non-objective space.  I enjoy this balance between sensibilities in your painting; from the rather raw chalky white fields to the mellow tinted warm tones. There seems to be a fair amount of sgriffito, intuitively leading the viewer into layers of pigment.  I generally prefer the pieces which leave a fair amount of open space, since the gestural brushstrokes provide a good amount of visual activity, but here the calligraphic black lines are also a crisp contrast to the pinkish textural ground.  The title hints as an abstracted salt shaker, emptying down into the work.  But without this reference it appears as a vestige of a vessel or tube.