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Guy Lyman
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)

2024

About the Item

Comes framed and ready to hang. Artist’s Statement: “This is part of a series of paintings I am working on now involved with the slight off-balancing of forms and dissonance between colors (here, blue) that are close enough to each other (but not complementary) to cause a slight buzz of dissonance. The palette is very limited. There is a certain sense of "offness," as with poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' "dappled things" that I am going after with these. He wrote "thank heaven" for these imbalances, and another favorite of mine, Theloneus Monk, played the piano this way. I often find myself going after what he achieved on the piano, but with paint." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift (On prior series by the artist): “These paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 Painting comes in a high-profile professional float frame, ready to hang.
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