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David SorensenHorizon Series: Mauve Brown Sky - contemporary, modernist, oil on canvas2005
2005
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This abstract oil painting by David Sorensen is one of his Horizon series.
An important contemporary Canadian artist, David Sorensen’s impressive body of work spanned decades. Influenced early in his career by some of the world’s best abstract expressionists—Picasso, de Kooning, Rothko, and Riopelle, his large-scale abstract paintings expressed his singular vision of light, colour, landscape and the horizon. in this piece bands of colour in a modern turquoise, bright orange and purple appear in layers at the base of the canvas.
The body of the painting is chocolate brown with highlights of orange and expressive markings in purple. A fine turquoise and gray border surrounds the work. One of a series.
“(With this series I create the) experience of a vast and calming imaginary place: the horizon, a kind of passageway to a state of mind.” David Sorensen
“Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer
David Sorensen was born in Vancouver and (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson, Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt. After moving to Montreal, he taught art at the Montreal School of Art, the Saidye Bronfman Centre and Bishop’s University for almost 20 years. Sorensen, a member of the RCA exhibited all over the world. His work is held in numerous private, corporate and public collections.
- Creator:David Sorensen (1937 - 2011, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2005
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bloomfield, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU29115952442
David Sorensen
David Sorensen sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction — wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson, Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt. Shadbolt, who in turn had studied Hans Hoffman, invited American art critic Clement Greenberg to the school to discuss abstraction, including the work of Rothko, Pollock and Kline. These influences helped shape Sorensen’s painterly approach to non-figurative art. In 1964, the artist moved to Montreal, where he held teaching positions at the Montreal Museum School of Art, the Saidye Bronfman Centre and later, Bishop’s University. Over his long career, Sorensen exhibited in Switzerland, France, Italy, Japan, China, the U.S. and across Canada.
In 2005, the Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent in Riviere-du-Loup, QC curated a 45-year retrospective of the artist’s work. In 1996, Sorensen was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. His work is held in private, corporate and public collections, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton and more.
(Biography provided by OENO Gallery)
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