PAIRINGS - A SUBSET of the ABSTRAKTES BILD SERIES

While I was executing the Abstraktes Bild works, it became a very physical and carefully choreographed affair. The oil enamels become very unruly quickly, going from a flowing liquid state to a sticky goopy mess in to time at all. The paint’s workable time is very short. Soon I was filling panels with paint and using them to create the gestures within the works. When the dust settled, it became apparent that many pieces that were contemporaneously created belonged together, they belonged with each other. This is a motif I have explored since very early on in my work, as seen below.

Peaches and Pears, at 30 x 40 in., is a watercolor executed in 1992. It’s distinctive comparative composition became the root of “pairings” as a subject matter, in a literal and allegorical way. You can read a critic’s point of view here.

What follows below are the more recent pairings, at first using oil enamels on board, and evolving to include urethanes and latex.

“At First Not What It Seems” is the last painting executed for this series. It identifies the melancholy inherent in those whose dharma is the pursuit of mystical explorations, for it is a lonely road. The heavy burden of having the knowledge of perception and anticipation, for in this world truth is rarely spoken, and even less accepted.

AG 5/8/16