Image: Our work overlaps in the use of grid-like geometric structures. There is also a give and take of flatness and depth.
Process: I know this particular image is a screen print. we differ in that regard.
Concept: We are both creating spaces with our work that the viewer can get lost in. Color is the subject. the closeness or distance between lines creates the feeling.
TIM BAVINGTON:
Image: Tim uses rectangles of color that are placed next to each other. These colors create flat surfaces.
Process: This artist has an interesting process of reinterpreting a song into these lines of color. He assigns a color t each note in the 12 tone scale. I also had a system for the selection in part f my process.
Concept: We have similar ideas in terms of having a system. We both work abstractly and try to create a response with color. He doesn't try to create depth.
JEFF DEPNER:
Image: there are areas in this painting that look they are interlocking and other areas that look like they are going back into space. My first painting has this situation.
Process: Depner paints rigid lines of color yet you can see the evidence of brushwork and he keeps the fact that he's using paint obvious. There are subtle drips.
Concept: The colors have an unusual relationship with each other. They are not quite beautiful and not quite ugly. The pallet is unified with a few foreign intruders. The shapes and divisions interact in a way that create multiple options for looking at the same space. I am interested in creating spaces that can be read in may different ways. Im also interested in a pallet that has an emotional charge and creates an engaging conversation-back and forth- between its colors.
SUSIE ROSMARIN
Image: In paintings like these Susie is really only using rectangles to create her images. They have a optical illusion quality that plays with the eye and causes a dizzying sense of depth.
Process: I believe Susie tapes off Sections and ends up pulling the layers off tape that appear on top last. She uses acrylic paint.
Concept: These pieces are abstract and can be interpreted many different ways. they contain a natural behavior. By this I mean she create beauty in a way that erosion or the layering of soil might create beauty.
JOAN BROWN
Image: Many of Joan's painting are of the human figure. Usually the figures have a dramatically pensive expression.
Process: They are painted with coarse chunks of color that have a hint of realistic lighting but mostly act in their own world. The figure above is relatively representational and proportional but also obviously has many unreal qualities.
Concept: Joan seems to be painting internal feelings on external forms. The colors themselves and way the colors react to each other is more important than representational elements.
ADAM ROSS
Image: Many of Adam's paintings contain ambiguous panels with a gradation on them. There is no specific representation going on. There is a slight resemblance of a cityscape in this one but no actual buildings are being rendered.
Process: For the backgrounds it seems like he is smooshing on large areas of paint rather than painting with a brush. for the foreground there seems to be detailed brushwork and even some precision in his floating abstract forms.
Concept: A balance of areas where the paint is staying in its natural state and where paint is being manipulated carefully, is maintained in many of Adam's paintings. Meaning is a faint possibility in his imagery. One can almost anticipated the forms becoming recognizable but they never do. That feeling can be present in the human psyche when one tries to make sense of everything all at once.
GREG ITO
