Abstract Perspectives
In this collection, each work offers a glimpse into a world shaped by color, form, and feeling rather than literal representation. Paired with thoughts from some of the greats, these pages celebrate the power of abstraction to move, provoke, and awaken the imagination.
opposite: Carly Allen Martin · All the Light We Carry · Mixed media on canvas · 54 × 80 in. VIEW MORE FROM ALLEN MARTIN
cover: David Skillicorn · Harmonia 33-1 · Acrylic on canvas · 36 × 48 in. VIEW MORE FROM SKILLICORN
INQUIRE ABOUT A PIECE
Audra Weaser · Surfacing
Mixed media on panel · 40 × 60 in.
VIEW MORE FROM WEASER
opposite:
Paul Balmer · Starlit Pathways
Mixed media on panel · 48 × 96 in.
VIEW MORE FROM BALMER
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
—
RENÉ MAGRITTE
“Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.”
—ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Rose Masterpol · Sound Wave
Acrylic on canvas · 74 × 52 in.
VIEW MORE FROM MASTERPOL
opposite:
Beatriz Simon · Nothing
Mixed media on canvas · 79 × 79 in.
VIEW MORE FROM SIMON
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
—MARC CHAGALL
· 60 × 60 in.
VIEW MORE FROM PARDUE opposite: Shivani
· Meeting the Sky Oil on canvas · 72 × 84 in.
VIEW MORE FROM DUGAR
Meredith Pardue · Celestial Cloud VI
Mixed media on canvas
Dugar
“Abstract art was the equivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words, but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.”
—ETEL ADNAN
Maura Segal · Sand Castle
Mixed media on canvas · 60 × 48 in.
VIEW MORE FROM SEGAL
opposite:
Wendy Westlake · More Than You Know
Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 75 in.
VIEW MORE FROM WESTLAKE
Oil on canvas · 60 × 48 in.
VIEW MORE FROM NOICE
opposite:
Raul de la Torre · Poemes CXXVIII
Mixed media on canvas · 30 × 60 in.
VIEW MORE FROM DE LA TORRE
Marshall Noice · Deeper Blue Ridgetop
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
— ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
—LUCIEN FREUD
Sherri Belassen · Soil Ties Oil on canvas · 48 × 48 in.
VIEW MORE FROM BELASSEN
opposite: Amy Donaldson · Victorious Love Oil on canvas · 30 × 50 in.
VIEW MORE FROM DONALDSON
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”
— ARSHILE GORKY
Aron Hill · Large Blue Monument, Protected Twice
Acrylic on canvas · 70 × 54 in.
VIEW MORE FROM HILL
opposite: Maria Burtis · Alpha 2
Mixed media on canvas · 24 × 24 in.
VIEW MORE FROM BURTIS
“A painting is not a picture of an experience ; it is an experience.”
—MARK ROTHKO
Takefumi Hori · Landscape No 35 Tokyo
Mixed media on canvas · 40 × 42 in.
VIEW MORE FROM HORI opposite:
Liz Barber · Spring Bloom 10
Mixed media on canvas · 36 × 48 in.
VIEW MORE FROM BARBER
