"Sublunary" Abstract Contemporary Multimedia Painting by Guy Lyman, Framed

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Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.

Artist’s Statement: “A complete departure from what I … Read more Comes framed and ready to hang in professional wood black floater frame.

Artist’s Statement: “A complete departure from what I have been working on this year - obviously influenced by Rauschenberg's "combine" paintings, among my favorite paintings on earth. This is all about the balance of materials (including handmade paper, xerography, rubber,) unlikely colors playing off one another, luster and varying surface qualities - though I don't think the result feels academic or technical; rather, it gives me a sense of delight, as the combine paintings do."

“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. "

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(On prior series by the artist): “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.”

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