Jetsam (Framed Abstract Contemporary Painting), G. Campbell Lyman, Framed

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Comes ready to hang in a professional floater frame. Dimensions given are with frame.

Artist's Statement: "I am revisiting a … Read more Comes ready to hang in a professional floater frame. Dimensions given are with frame.

Artist's Statement: "I am revisiting a series of paintings I did back in 2015 (long since sold) that I really enjoyed creating. They exhibit echoes of Rauschenberg, Johns and Twombly during their playful period of the late 50's and early 60's, but they feel distinctive and personal to me rather than derivative. I have to really let loose and take some chances when making these, or they can quickly seem contrived."

“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift

“These paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 See less