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Comment by Resident Curator on January 30, 2023 at 7:44pm

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This exuberant painting remains popular on the site despite it being created almost a decade ago.  I’m drawn into the circular brushstrokes that move me into the center of the square composition. There are faint remnants of a human face, with a tomato red line bisecting two round blue eyes. But look again, and the forms quickly dissolve into non-objectivity. I enjoy the formal tension between the matt blue-green and yellow surfaces, and glossy thick strokes of violet and red-orange. While the viewer could conclude a process-oriented randomness directs the muscular brushwork, there also seems to be a harmonized duality present. Color groupings appear in paired gestures in the abstraction.  The yellow shape balances another of a similar hue; blue matches blue, and so on.  This visual echo implies an underlying order in the chao. Ultimately, I succumb to the movement in the painting as a pleasurable cacophony of painterly expression.