Abstraction by its very nature is metaphysical. An abstract image defies the limitations of the physical world, but is ultimately defined by the physical world. The color red can be used as an abstraction of fire; the color blue, water; and the color green as nature, which is an abstraction for carbon based materials like grass, leaves and plants.
During the 1950's artists like Jackson Pollack, de Kooning and Rothko established the large format which dominated the canvases of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. These artists were influenced by the murals and government subsidized work of the W.P.A. In response to this format I began a series of small paintings which come across as small concentrated gems of paint. These are objects, not images, which need to be viewed as complete. Each piece needs no further interpretation beyond what it is.
The small format is in direct contradiction to the credo of most abstract artists who believed that the larger format transformed a painting from being a window into an imaginary world into an object which was subject to the environment in which it was viewed. The paintings you see here, though small, are not windows into an imaginary world; they are objects in an abstract world.
