This is a true series: a single theme recurring with slight variations over and over again. Minuscule changes in composition and palette assume a generalized contextual significance of an incremental accumulation that transmutes the initial theme into something beyond its original self — a meta-narrative of a sort, albeit visual. It may refer to memory [...]
I am beginning to recognize the prevalence and significance of barns as an architectural phenomenon in rural America. This must be the third time I am reviewing paintings with such or similar structure being the main theme; Tracy Helgeson‘s work should be one reference, and Andrea Kowch‘s another. Casey Klahn’s barns are much more like [...]
I love abstract art — I don’t think I can say that outright about any other style or movement, not without some reservation. Show me works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko; their paintings move me and make me feel the music of color, line, geometrical form and composition, all in [...]
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