skateboarding girl, 42x42” oil & collage on linen, as she looked following today’s session
2:29 PM: i took skateboarding girl to the next level today. as are all my recent paintings, it’s a figurative abstraction , where the figures anchor the entire composition and give the viewer a doorway into the balance of colors and forms constituting the composition. i believe my main mentor, tsarouchis, would get it. although this would be a leap forward for him and his ‘60’s-70’s sensibility, he was so anchored in the history of great art over time, that he would not, i believe, have the slightest difficulty understanding where i’m at, and the role he played and continues to play.
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