Art Consultant Insight
In this months edition of Plumage-TX Magazine, Art Consultant, Katherine Shevchenko walks us through her personal interpretation and opinion on a few spotlight art pieces of Cliff Cavin’s “Light” exhibition at J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art—Boerne.
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liff Cavin’s retrospective, “Light” was curated around the theme of exploring the landscapes done over the course of his career featuring the element of light and how it affects the landscape though his eyes. Not only does light reveal, in its absence it can also unveil another layer of topographic poetry that goes unnoticed at a first casual glance. Cavin, in his painting compositions captures and embodies interludes of light and dark in his brush strokes on the natural surfaces of the land; recorded from his journeys. Shadows embodies Cliff Cavin’s ability to paint the landscape of New Mexico in a robust interpretation that is expressed through vibrant brush work and a saturated color palette. The bluish shadows cast by the shrubs are vibrating complementary against the chartreuse shrubs. Painterly imprints directionally lead the eye, weaving in and out of the vegetation guiding the eye throughout the painting.
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Reviews/ Commentary/ Exhibitions/ News/ Events, May 2015
“Shadows” oil on canvas 16” x 16”