Illusions

Beaks and Claws
acrylic on wood
52" x 70"

Statement

Most of these hand-painted acrylic paintings are my usual
music like linear series of shaped wood panels on aluminum
supports. This format seems to be the best way to join pure,
yet equivocal, colors and whimsical shapes derived partly from
landscape is a constantly changing experience with the viewer's
point of view shifting at regular intervals in time of day, weather,
and terrain. Within the color gradations is hopefully an illusion
of space with light coming from afar, which makes the viewer
feel that they are in the presence of beauty and serenity.
   These works are located stylistically in the realm of abstraction
and color theory. They depend on the perceptual excitement and
tensions of carefully modulated colors, soft and sharp edges, and
bulging and dissolving shapes, to create a compelling, yet contra-
dictory, sense of multiple times and spaces. Their influences go
back to Josef Albers and the German Bauhaus through the Op Art
movement documented by the Responsive Eye show at MOMA
in the sixties. Another important influence for them is Florida 'low'
art,especially beach, culture airbrush, although I have never used
airbrush and explore the interaction of pure colors in a fairly
formal way.

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