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Artist Statement — Polished Sales Version
Title: Conversation with Susan Loar
Medium: Oil on canvas (hand-worked), ready to hang
Origin. This painting began as an inquiry into how two people can share a moment without speaking — how presence alone can shape the air. The title came early, almost uninvited, and with it a sense of suspended dialogue. Rather than depict a figure, I built an environment where form, color, and atmosphere carry the emotional weight. The painting draws on the quiet cadence found in reflective music — that same slow breath of a track built from almost nothing, like the small vocal seed that became Groove Armada’s At the River. The idea was simple: let a minimal gesture open into something expansive.
Composition & process. A tall, architectural form rises at center — structured yet trembling with shifting geometric hues. It holds the canvas the way a single voice holds a room. Around it, planes of turquoise, ochre, and violet unfurl like layered recollections. Transparent glazes soften the transitions, while firmer passages anchor the eye; every edge negotiates between precision and the gentle dissolution of memory. The surface carries its construction honestly: abraded notes, re-set angles, and veiled tones that preserve the history of the conversation taking shape.
Storyline (in my voice). I imagined this painting as the moment after a meaningful exchange — when the room is quiet, but everything spoken still lingers in the air. The central form became that presence: steady, luminous, quietly complex. The surrounding fields are the thoughts one revisits, the clarities and uncertainties that drift back after the fact. When the geometry finally settled into a rhythm that felt true — part structure, part breath — I signed it and sealed the back.
Viewing notes. Step back and let the eye meet the vertical figure first, then wander outward through the softer color fields that move like murmurs of light. Up close, watch how the glazes bend the temperature of each plane, revealing small shifts that make the painting feel alive beneath the surface. The work rewards long, unhurried looking — its conversation continues as you stand with it.
Title & presentation. Titled Conversation with Susan Loar; signed on the front; studio-stamped documentation and a handwritten note on the back. Ready to hang.
Collector highlights
Architectural abstraction at its height: A striking example of Karpinsky’s mature vocabulary — structural clarity balanced with atmospheric, emotionally charged fields.
Central “tower-form” of rare presence: The vertical figure anchors the canvas with a sense of inner luminosity and conceptual weight, echoing the quiet intensity of human connection.
Layers of memory in motion: Planes of turquoise, ochre, and violet unfold like recollections resurfacing — a composition built for repeated, contemplative viewing.
Precision and fluidity in equal measure: The work demonstrates the artist’s trademark tension between engineered edgework and softly dissolving transitions, a hallmark of his six-figure canvases.
A cornerstone acquisition: Highly representative of Karpinsky’s contemporary abstraction — a significant addition for collectors seeking museum-caliber work with both visual impact and conceptual depth.