Pamela Holmes

Do You Have Reservations?

2023

This painting came from a embodied experience that changed my life. Frame is steel

steel frame

The frame is steel. Any questions, please ask.

The Painting has a steel frame. When working on this piece, I engaged from the viewpoint of the painting and acted as a reporter. These paintings are brought to this world for you as...

The piece has a steel frame. Being an Imagination activist, this painting follows the tradition of John Dewey's " art as experience."

This work is a reflection on materiality and terrain.

(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple or black floater frame, ready to hang.) Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to my 'Gridish' series but with more negative space, a broader array of media and more complexity to the oval forms. I have tried to create tension between these iconic forms through the divergence of dissonant and unusual materials, colors and textures. These ovals keep reappearing in my work; they seem almost like groups of silent but sentient beings to me." “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 either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His 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 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

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"Untitled (Multi-Court)" is a painting by Martyna Alexander from her second gallery solo exhibition, "Courts."

"Untitled (Horizontal)" is a painting by Martyna Alexander from her second gallery solo exhibition, "Courts."