Abstractions

Abstract art is often mysterious.  Sometimes the viewer can make out the figures and images.  Other times, the work seems like a hodgepodge of. . .whatever.  The beholder's reaction is fundamental, however. Curiosity? Joy? Disgust? Smiles? Analysis? Calm? Energy? Intrigue? The artist provokes the response by coalescing elements of the abstract visual language of line, shape, form, value, texture, color, and pattern.  My series to date is more conceptual than amorphous, arousing thought, conversation -- and even laughter.  

Prehistoric California Goddess

A Pop Art salute to the Goddess.  Two panels offer front and back views of an ancient female fetish form detailed with repeated use of prehistoric art patterns that are also contemporary in their simplicity: whirls, M designs, lines, chevrons, hooks, horns, eggs, circles, etc.  Although the black, white, and terracotta palette recalls early Grecian pottery, this effigy specifically honors the primeval Goddess of Southern California -- as it sports the trademark bikini of a shapely, healthy beach girl.  Splashes of yellow and turquoise are my winks to fellow living modern Goddesses, as we howl together at this celebration of the eternal beauty of real women -- cellulite and all!

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Controlled Chaos. . .or. . .

Some Unfortunate Pigeon Exploded by a Grenade 

Optical illusions fool the eye.  But upon examination, you can see how layering and various textures create the motion of an in-and-out spiral from a solid center.  Broad brush strokes of thin grey tones are overlayed with strong thinner black and white strokes of thicker paint.  Each quadrant varies in density, starting thick in the lower right, thinning out in the lower left and upper left, and thickening again in the upper right.  Despite the intensity, there is a feathered feel.  Are these particles shooting and floating out in space after the Big Bang? Or is this some calamity for a beautiful bird?

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Genesis I: 6-10

What is that red form with an electric pink streak?  A futuristic aircraft? The glow of Aphrodite about to rise from within a giant shell?  Are the pink forms at right boats, sails, playful big kisses?  Abstracted landscapes invite personal interpretation.  My own?  God, a Woman -- after separating the ocean from the sky -- is beginning to form land.  Her divine light is hot pink because she is having a great time! As was I when aiming to create a real-time vibrating primordial "in the beginning" experience by juxtaposing complementary colors, incongruous shapes and forms, and horizontal/vertical applications of thicker paint. 

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Global Warming 

A cool-colored painting evolved into a hot concept.  Although inspired by the neutral-toned rock coves of LaJolla, California, the scene was meant to evoke the Greek seaside via the memorable contrast of its rich phthalo blue sea and reflective white cliffs.  During the painting process, an undercurrent of deeper meaning flowed forth.  The rock morphed into looking like Greenland's melting ice.  The water channel began to take on the shape of giant sperm, suggesting that testosterone-driven greed has been fertilizing the assault on the environment. 

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