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Statement Concerning the
Work, May 1999
This body of work
comprises a community of recurring shapes and patterns altered
and re-invented from image to image to make each painting totally
unique. Circles, and their various permutations, act as the organizational
underpinning for the paintings. Horizontal/vertical bands/stripes
echoing the edge of the canvas set up a dialog between the circle
and rectangle. Out of this basic relationship of circle to rectangle
a universe of decorative eccentricities and quirky unexpected
relationships arises. Figurative allusions and associations reverberate
beneath seemingly non-objective forms to add a poetic dimension
to the work. Spatial tensions between actual and illusion,(punctuated
by the use of aluminum plate pop-outs, plaster gauze semi-spheres,
ping-pong balls, bent wire, sculpted polyform compound, and/or
looped electrical wire glued and wired to the surface), bring
another level of resonance. Then add to this a variety of painting
techniques --sanding, glazing, splattering, incising, blending,
stamping and the paintings become an intensely tactile and sensuous
visual experience.
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