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bulleye II (bulleye series), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2017

How will the androids children of Silicon Valley paint in the future? The artist questions to what extent his own work process is a consequence of the u...

In this series the artist reflects on how the title of a work influences its meaning, and names each painting with an almost random title. The name of a pop music artist in code. :: ...

Carol John's art reflects her encounters with mainstream modern artists-showing the obvious influence of Guston and other individualists like Marsden Hartley and Alfred Julio Jensen-it also suggests an appreciation of certain 'outsider' artists, as with her improvisational approach to composition. Like quilters of Gee Bend, John often begins a work with little idea of where it will take her pictorially. She might find a composition’s repeating pattern needs to be squeezed to fit within a pictures margins or detoured around a corner for completion as if the papers edge were merely a slight obstacle. In their unrestricted manner, the paintings have much more in common with childhood doodles, mindless of convention and heedless of expectations. that is not to say they are directionless. Guided by insight, they recall the paintings of visionary artists like Howard Finster or J.B Murray...

This acrylic and enamel painting on canvas merges the free-flowing gestures of abstract expressionism with a composition centered around circular forms, creating a visual tension bet...