Gulf Stream, one example
of this method, features delicately
layered passages
of oil
paint surrounded by
denser expanses
of vivid
acrylic paint, a framing device that she would continue to explore the following year.
In his practice
of creating abstract
paintings Patrick Wilson uses humble tools — he applies
acrylic paint with a drywall knife to drag
layers of translucent and
dense coats
of paint across the canvas to progressively build rectilinear spaces
of line, pigment, light, and texture.