Edward Zelinsky

now come with me, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper

2008

From a series done after a visit to Lucca, Italy. Done with brush on sturdy Italian watercolor paper. Mostly figurative- many with wings- against a gray brushstroked background depic...

Drawing is a pen on a long journey- I go along for the ride! This is the 2nd in a series... :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticit...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...

Untitled, work on paper by Eddie Martinez Untitled 2006 Signed and dated, l.r. Acrylic, ink, and pen on paper 4.5 x 6.25 inches