The photographs in «The Resonant Image: Photographs by Chip Simone» at the High Museum of Art — a 10 - year retrospective initiated by former curator Julian Cox and completed by his successor, Brett Abbott — are well - crafted images produced with excellent resolution, color balance and formal composition, and many cleverly align decomposing advertisements, scruffy walls and artfully
abstracted architectural fragments.
Not exact matches
Rather than drafts for his contemplative
abstract paintings, the colder drawings of
architectural fragments are works in their own right.
I'm imagining that these ten paintings will be shown somewhere, in the future, but these trompe l'oeil
architectural beams, the vertical lines of silkscreened wood grain,
fragments of which will appear in these ten paintings, are just going to become
abstract compositional marks.
This ambivalence I have towards the nature of the term «
abstract» also applies to my use of certain
architectural elements, sometimes on a very large scale, in an effort to compress
fragments of real
architectural space onto a relatively frontal idea, vis à vis Mark Rothko for instance.