1986

1986, Woman With Clothes Blowing In The Wind or Blue Figure

In the painting named above, titled after a Goya print, I masked a blue stained canvas with tape and painted over the square with the black and white oil paint.

The deeper blue stained square, when the tape was pulled off, would be physically behind but hover in tension to the black and white, painting surface.

Later, I further balanced this idea, with colored squares in front painted over the black and white the blue behind but all vibrating in tension as the pictures surface.





I describe this in detail as the pictorial ideas from this time were my discoveries of the surface still important to me today.

The overlay I used was popular then, I felt mine to be structural of ideas rather than what soon became decorative in Soho 80’s.