122 cm wide x 185 cm tall
Oil on Canvas
PROVENANCE: On hand at artist’s studio. Signed R25 on bottom left. Artists seal and Certificate of Authenticity in Sleeve on back. See Description below for more
A bronze-colored form stands against a broad yellow-green sky in This Painting was Created to Perpetuate My Memory. Its modeled surface suggests a heavy, freestanding object, yet its uneven profile refuses the symmetry of a conventional monument. Near the base, a rectangular opening lets the background pass through the body of the form.
Blue, black, and orange contours gather around its upper edges like successive outlines of the same presence. These bright bands are flatter and more emphatic than the shaded central surface, setting graphic energy against an illusion of mass. Below, a dark platform steadies the composition while a densely marked ground streams away in numerous directions.
The title places memory beside the physical act of making an image endure. Here, that idea finds an evocative counterpart in a structure that is substantial but not closed: it occupies space and also admits an absence. The large vertical canvas holds this tension with unusual clarity, allowing the quiet expanse of sky to amplify every turn of the silhouette and every shift between the solid center and its surrounding traces.
122 cm wide x 185 cm tall
Oil on Canvas
PROVENANCE: On hand at artist’s studio. Signed R25 on bottom left. Artists seal and Certificate of Authenticity in Sleeve on back. See Description below for more
A bronze-colored form stands against a broad yellow-green sky in This Painting was Created to Perpetuate My Memory. Its modeled surface suggests a heavy, freestanding object, yet its uneven profile refuses the symmetry of a conventional monument. Near the base, a rectangular opening lets the background pass through the body of the form.
Blue, black, and orange contours gather around its upper edges like successive outlines of the same presence. These bright bands are flatter and more emphatic than the shaded central surface, setting graphic energy against an illusion of mass. Below, a dark platform steadies the composition while a densely marked ground streams away in numerous directions.
The title places memory beside the physical act of making an image endure. Here, that idea finds an evocative counterpart in a structure that is substantial but not closed: it occupies space and also admits an absence. The large vertical canvas holds this tension with unusual clarity, allowing the quiet expanse of sky to amplify every turn of the silhouette and every shift between the solid center and its surrounding traces.
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