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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Ruth Pastine - Mind's Eye, Sense Certainty Series

Brian Gross Fine Art is exhibiting a new series from Ruth Pastine.

There are six canvases in the show; three blue and three red.

Her canvases have a very deep bevel and project from the wall

four or five inches. This causes the color planes to appear to float off of the wall.

The blue series has subtle vertical gradients with a range of blue intensities.

All of the paintings optically vibrate - especially the largest in

the series, Blue Orange (Violet Blue Deep), 60" x 60".

Blue Orange (Blue Deep)

Oil on canvas, 2014

48" x 48"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

Blue Orange (Blue Violet)

Oil on canvas, 2014

48" x 48"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

Blue Orange (Violet Blue Deep)

Oil on canvas, 2014

60" x 60"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

The red series is quite intense and almost electric under the

gallery lights. Subtle gradients of color are again at play with the bands

of violet fading off into infinity.

Red Green (Magenta Violet)

Oil on canvas, 2014

48" x 48"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

Red Green (Red Magenta)

Oil on canvas, 2014

48" x 48"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

Red Green (Red Magenta)

Oil on canvas, 2014

60" x 32"

(Photo from Brian Gross Fine Art)

Monday, August 4, 2014

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith was born in Oklahoma before it became a state.

His parents were early settlers in "Indian Territory".

Somewhere along the way he picked up a paint brush,

and discovered Mondrian.

For more information, interviews and fabulous images of his work
CLICK HERE for the Leon Polk Smith Foundation.

INTERVIEW by Addison Parks, 1982
found on Artdeal Magazine.

Correspondence Green - Orange

Oil on canvas, 1963

50" x 40.5"

Much of his work looks startlingly similar to Ellsworth Kelly's.

Seems strange to me that he isn't more famous.

Grey Columns

Oil on canvas, 1947

72" x 48"

Expanse

Oil on canvas, 1959

68.5" x 74"

Yonder Orange

Oil on canvas, 1990

78" x 120"

Untitled
Paint on canvasette, 1956
20" x 16"

Yellow Green

Acrylic on canvas, 1980

64.5" x 90"

Untitled

Papare collage on paper, 1980

20" x 18"

Yonder Purple

Acrylic on canvas, 1990

90" x 60"

LINK to, The Dynamics of Diagonal and Space, by Addison Parks,
August 1, 1994 in the Christian Science Monitor
and Artdeal Magazine.

Link to the Leon Polk Smith Foundation website

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Stations of the Cross

Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross on display at the DeYoung Museum.

A series of 15 paintings produced from 1958 - 1966,

and displayed in a room dedicated solely to this series.

The exhibit space feels almost like a chapel, and visitors spoke only in whispers

on both of my visits.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Miles Davis - Spanish Key, Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

The music of Miles Davis has always made me think of colors. Almost as though he was creating paintings. From strong bursts of color contrasts and compliments to soft hues of grey with subtle undertones.

Click HERE for a video of Miles Davis and his band playing Spanish Key from the Bitches Brew album Live at the Isle of Wight in 1970.

Study for Pharaoh's Dance.

Acrylic on panel, 6" x 12".

Abstract blocks of color arranged in almost random composition.

Scribble Book - works in progress

For Jennifer, June 16, 2014

Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6".

Complimentary color contrast.

For Jennifer, June 16, 2014

Acrylic on panel, 6" x 6".

Complimentary color contrast.

Study for Pharaoh's Dance.

Acrylic on panel, 6" x 12".

Abstract blocks of color arranged in almost random composition.

Click here for Scribble Book:

http://billbloomfield.blogspot.com/p/works.html

Monday, June 2, 2014

Gabriele Evertz

Gabriele Evertz's paintings focus on the pure impact of color by eliminating complex compositions or figure-ground relationships. This allows the viewer to experience solely the sensations of color and its impact on our emotions and feelings.

TIME LAPSE VIDEO of the effect of light on one of Evertz's paintings.

Click HERE.