Artist Don Strandberg opened “Towards Color”, his show of new paintings and mixed media pieces, last week in The Frame Maker showroom.
” In this work I’ve used theme and variation, and repetition to explore some basic ideas about form and composition.
I’ve chosen easily recognizable motifs like bars and stripes, dots, and grids in order to concentrate on the direct method of manipulating the formal elements as such. This allows me to avoid having to invent a format within which to do so.
The aim is simplicity and clarity, while allowing the work to remain somewhat open ended.”
-Don Strandberg, September 2009
While very spare conceptually, Don’s work has a certain lushness of color and texture that overflows his “found” geometric formatting and demands the viewer’s attention without apology.
Don Strandberg's Toward Color at The Frame Maker
Don Strandberg's Toward Color at The Frame Maker
Don Strandberg's Toward Color at The Frame Maker
Don Strandberg's Toward Color at The Frame Maker
Check out Don’s work in person through October 31 in The Frame Maker showroom, 3102 Reynard Way, San Diego, CA.
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