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Just So, Series II, No. 5
48 X 48, acrylic on canvas with aluminum
and brass
Artist’s Statement:
As an art student I greatly admired American realists Edward Hopper and Thomas
Hart Benton. But over the years, while pursuing careers in journalism and
public relations, abstract expressionism, op art, minimalism and color field
painting had a strong impact on me.
When I started painting again, my work quickly evolved into abstract acrylics
that I call organic, multi-tonal color field painting, which frequently
incorporates aluminum, brass and copper on the canvas support. The technique
has evolved within a spectrum of pictures I call Spheres of Influence
and Just So. Concurrently I have pursued another technique that I call
painterly constructions, work that blends painting and sculptural
effects. Series in this mode in metal, board and paper include Critical
Points, Within the Realm and Crunch Time.
In the Spheres of Influence series, curvilinear forms slip past each
other, overlap, barely touch or collide, creating tension and movement that
suggest power and attraction, mystery and influence. Critical Points
suggest sharp, disconnected messages tangling in a variety of environments in
a struggle to gain center stage and prevail. Crunch Time expands the
collision of ideas in a roiling mass of aluminum and brass. Within the
Realm suggests agitation and a massive turbulence below the surface. The
titles of the series are drawn from corporate and bureaucratic jargon and buzz
words, and suggest, in concert with the aesthetic vocabulary I have developed,
a range of emotions and reactions experienced by the artist in the workplace,
and no doubt applicable to many, anywhere.
I returned to art after a career in journalism with two New England newspapers
and 10 years with LIFE Magazine, and public relations with IBM, Ford, Union
Pacific and The Business Roundtable—heading PR at the last two, and
International PR at Ford.
Since 2000, when my work was first shown at Ruth and the late Skitch
Henderson’s Silo Gallery in New Milford, Connecticut, another show followed at
the Silo in 2003, and at the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery in New York City in
2006. My pictures have sold to collectors in New York, Connecticut, Michigan,
California, Warsaw and Tokyo.
~~~~~~Dick Anthony( USA)~~~~~~~