For «Melt to Earth,» Mr. Curry, who is based in Los Angeles, applied his typical sampling - like sweep of allusions: rudimentary World War I tanks, science fiction creatures, even Giacometti's unrealized commission for Chase Manhattan Plaza.
The layering of marks, painterly swirls and colored fields create forces within the composition that act upon each other resulting in a dynamic spin that sends the allusionof landscape and space into sweeping movements.