Impasto Abstract Painting — Contemporary Museum Exhibit, Europe

5 October 2017 · Paris

Thick impasto paint builds a skull-like form out of the canvas itself — dark voids for eye sockets, ridged bone structure emerging from a field of churning red, white, and blue pigment. The texture is the subject: paint applied in such volume that the work becomes sculptural, casting its own shadows. Up close, chaos; at distance, a figure resolves. That double reading is what holds the eye.