The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to
reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.
Not exact matches
Vincent Dion's
painterly abstractions mimic various printed techniques which
reconcile and affirm the introspective presence of the hand.
Even at this early stage his interest in
reconciling figuration and
abstraction, and in representing events and memories with
painterly symbols, was becoming evident in works such as Mr and Mrs Robyn Denny, 1960.