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G. Campbell Lyman
"Ur" - Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting

2020

About the Item

Artist's Statement: "This is part of a series of work I created using a complex mix of media to evoke age and tropes and paradigms of human culture. Our obsession with the new sometimes disturbs me, as I walk the streets of New Orleans and revel in its antique patina. I have kept these paintings mostly small thus far, as they take lots of layering and minute decisions as to luster and texture, and it's intimidating to think about scaling them up. Maybe someday." “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 This work comes framed in a handsome high-profile float frame.
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