New 2021 Series of Light Industrial Abstracts
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6N3A 30" x 40" Original Oil on Canvas
"Still life spheroids with nebulous overcast impressions, elements of modern humanism starkly intersected by rigid geometry of postmodern pyramidal transcendence offset by heavy rectangular artifact." - T. R. Hartley |
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JK5 24" x 24" Original Oil on Canvas
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2 Cents 24" x 24" Original Oil on Canvas
"A fusion of watery, bluish turquoises churning with nebulous purples and more earthy tomes, projecting an ethereal, Kandinskyesque emotionality; of what is hard to say. And yet, while this composition is mostly abstract, the area depicting an irregular constructed brick wall demands a horizontal orientation -- the work might be spun 180 degrees without challenging our sense of reality. Our mental pattern recognition system is teased as we seek identifiable objects, some rational meaning or at least equilibria to stabilize this constellation of movement. A tempting minimal suggestion of human-scale order is found in a couple of brownish runes or hieroglyphics at center, urging decoding, emergent ideograms maybe or perhaps some remnant of a forgotten alphabet. Consciously arrange geometric borders within borders beg the question of foreground background duality hinting at a dreamlike magical place where the inner vision frames our world. On the left a planet like orb draws us into stellar space, while on the lower right a dark mass disintegrates (or does it coalesce?) into a whorl of leafy shapes, nonverbal meanings superimposed upon a faint diamond mosaic." - T. R. Hartley |
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After Effects 24" x 24" Original Oil on Canvas
"In this piece the horizontal tripartite divisions seem exactly thirds but the vertical is slightly off, as if the three rigid, starkly geometric and minimally colored square panels, two of ruddy red brick and the middle a grid-like white pattern, on the left side were being progressively obscured by an influx of dynamic vibrant tones from the right. The emotional movement is partially arrested as the eye catches semi-obscure purple typography in a whitish space above at center and left--clouds perhaps to trap materialist minds--while below in the horizontal middle, extending suggestively a touch more than two thirds across from right to left, are aqueous effusions, indescribable variations from blue to white with a yellowish enigma erratically arrayed on top. Beneath that living liquidity lies a lower realm, maybe freezing or afterwards fracturing, with a suggested solidity somewhere between breezy atmosphere and a solid wall." - T. R. Hartley |
