A rich palette dominates his paintings of this period, often with a cruciform as the central compositional anchor, a form that he later isolated
evoking painting as object.
Not exact matches
As such, looking across the
paintings the
object appears to shift between guises, moving from
evoking the calmly undulating natural form in a landscape to the brazen and speedy flash of the carnivalesque.
They
evoke space and suggest a bond between the inside and outside by extending the charcoal lines to the top edge of the canvas and presumably beyond, directly challenging the formalist orthodoxy that defined
painting as a self - contained
object or surface.
The washed layers of
paint evoke a wistful and airy quality but it subverts convention
as Hipple incorporates everyday
objects into her work such
as Q - Tips, duct tape, bed sheet, etc..
Fences, gates, and grills operate simultaneously
as objects circumscribing the countryside and geometric patterns charting the canvas surface, and a number of
paintings contain diagrammatic lines
evoking a viewfinder, grid, or in the case of Central, a vanishing point.