"White on Color" 60" x 48" oil/paper/on panel 2011-2012
This painting is a compilation of images, set in one point perspective, that characterize the idea/reality of space and gravity. The hundreds of color images underneath the surface were carefully painted with white paint, applied in such a way so as to let the character of the image exist by allowing bits of negative space to come through within various parts of an image.
Kasimir Malevich "White on White" is the catalyst for the painting.
There are images of various kinds of space and gravity. The Necker Cube image is one of many to describe the ambiguity of space. One of the more intense images to describe gravity is a photograph of Evelyn McHale, a 23 year old woman, who on May1, 1947 jumped to her death from the observation deck on the Empire State Building. In her desperation and determination, she jumped clear of the embankments of the building, to land 86 floors below on the the roof of a United Nations limousine.
This painting is a compilation of images, set in one point perspective, that characterize the idea/reality of space and gravity. The hundreds of color images underneath the surface were carefully painted with white paint, applied in such a way so as to let the character of the image exist by allowing bits of negative space to come through within various parts of an image.
Kasimir Malevich "White on White" is the catalyst for the painting.
There are images of various kinds of space and gravity. The Necker Cube image is one of many to describe the ambiguity of space. One of the more intense images to describe gravity is a photograph of Evelyn McHale, a 23 year old woman, who on May1, 1947 jumped to her death from the observation deck on the Empire State Building. In her desperation and determination, she jumped clear of the embankments of the building, to land 86 floors below on the the roof of a United Nations limousine.
