Slant Step

There is quite a lot of things going on this abstract painting. There is fragmentation of memory in regards to places, the quality of light, the texture of the buildings and the surfaces, and the rich and sometimes sensuous experiences represented by the thick and abstract colors and brush strokes. It follows the lessons of non-centered-ness of Abstract Expressionism, almost poetic quality that is found in lyrical abstraction, and California bay painters style of colors and buildup of form. And then the vertical and horizontal lines that are fleeting provide a sense of orientation and direction in this mind boggling puzzle of a map of your experiences and ideas. There are both warm and cool colors, but they shine with clarity and towards warmth, mostly. The cool colors are there but only if they exist to cool down the overall warm temperature of the painting. It's as if Judith Linhares (overall warm color palette, and blocky brush strokes) combined with Richard Diebenkorn (abstract expressionism and cool overall color palette) and had a child. This would be the painting.