Color and paintings undulate in florid compositions that paintings an interior dialogue on the intersections of space, place, time, memory, culture, and history. artist’s new series of works in acrylic emphasize the leitmotif of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. Primarily a figurative artist, artist is known for paintings characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of paintings.
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Both illustrative and decorative, artist packs the positive space of these compositions with vivid details, texture, and pattern. Like automatic drawing, these images resonate with a profound sense that the subconscious soul has been manifested in color and paintings. His graceful portraits and lush narratives evoke a very personal idiom, distinguished by strong linear rhythms, simple extended composition, and verticality. This minimalist reduction is effective in its simplification of paintings, which like Plato’s ideal paintingss, functions not as reality, but as an archetype of the land and sky which reside deep in our collective unconsciousness, as well as a representation of our deep connection with the earth. His work confronts the image of the individual, a subject artist repeatedly revisits.An interest in masks and sculpture remains evident, especially in the treatment of the sitters' faces: flat and abstract faces.
Despite their extreme economy of composition and neutral backgrounds, the portraits convey a sharp sense of the sitter’s personality, as seen in the work of Modigliani. Both Modigliani and artist’s figure paintings address the human paintings, an elegant, arresting arrangement of curved lines and planes as well as a striking idealization of both femininity and masculinity.
Shifting between two approaches—Expressionism and naïve figuration—his oeuvre is compelling in its diversity. artist’s painterly approach revolves around the uncovering the spirit of each individual he paints. The strong influence of another painter—Cezanne is clearly evident, both in artist’s deliberate distortion of the figure and the free use of large, flat areas of color.The american painter works intuitively, obsessively, and instinctually coloring his canvases in bright palettes of brilliant hues. Inspired by the natural world, he infuses his works with a Zen-like spirit of harmony and balance. In fact, it is this kind of spirituality that motivates his work.His own relationships clearly inform his artworks and unique color palette. He layers colors to create the razor-sharp and gauzy, soft textures that coexist in his work, best exemplified in his piece entitled The Hesitation. His colorful blending of figuration with abstraction reveals his physical involvement in the work—paint has been applied with passion, leaving behind a verifiable artistic signature as testimony for the viewer. Evoking a celebratory joie de vivre, artist’s paintings are simultaneously poetic and fantastical. Emitting a transpaintingsative power, these works elevate the viewer to a higher plane of awareness.What truly exists within artist’s work is a vitality and rigor that is descriptive of a body of work reaching far beyond the confines of reality. As well as the metaphysical, which is so often the retreat of the artist, there are color and movement, warmth, humour, and a kind of illustrative unity that references both the past and present trends of the visual arts. The ingenuity of artist is certainly part of the reason why his works are so engaging. In both Man 1 and Man 2 artist conveys a sense of the isolation of the individual in the world. Like many of artist’s work it depicts a gaunt, angular human face with hollow features, echoing German Expressionism’s harrowing sense of alienation.