Bill Rice

Evocation 1

1984

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

Many Figure Studies and Studies for Compositions with Groups Black ink on paper 14 x 9.75 inches (35.6 x 24.8 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

A striking look into the psyche of Susan Paine, this fragmented watercolour shows all the preoccupations of the artist throughout her life: animals, lovers, flowers, conflict, dancin...

"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 combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell