01/09/2014
Check out this beautiful detailed review of our painting "Blip Switch" by our friend Trent Gallant:
"The painting definitely falls under the category of surrealism; combining elements of reality with skewed geometry, physics, and coloration. There is an incredible amount of movement conveyed within the painting. It starts in the lower left hand corner with the tree being swept forward by the wind as well as the entanglement of geometric obscurities reaching for the sky. Although the main action of movement within the painting is from read from lower left to upper right, the viewer can be drawn down to the lower right where a vacuum like appendage is sucking up cubes of earth. From the cubes, the viewer is then drawn back down the hill through the shadows to start at the tree again. This movement entices the eye and helps to create an interesting and challenging composition.
The textures found within this painting are anything but lacking. The hills and sky convey smoothness as well as a familiarity to the viewer. This background allows the brain to get its bearings right before snatching it away with the dissimilar geometries protruding from the sky.
Shape and color are the real focus of this piece. The painting mixes organic shapes with solid edged geometries with perfect balance and precision. Colors burst from every shape within the focal point, but nothing feels over saturated or out of place. The floating objects exude contradicting feelings of both chaos and harmony.
One would think a painting with such lavish color and pandemonium could not bring the viewer peace, but for me it does. Elements of nature and biology merge with the abstract to render a depiction of the human mind’s creativity, expression, and potential."
