URBAN ACCENTS

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 Functional Fine Art
Text Box: Abstract Expressionism Dave Watkins

Urban Accents, 159 North Broadway is proud to announce that it is now showing the works of  Dave Watkins

 

The show will be in our gallery space from October 19 thru November 31, 2007. 

 

 

Here are a just a few examples of his work including new abstract paintings.
Text Box: Abstract Expressionism A painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gutturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas, but which is actually highly planned. Some Abstract Expressionist artists were concerned with adopting a peaceful and mystical approach to a purely abstract image. Usually there was no effort to represent subject matter. Not all work was abstract, nor was all work expressive, but it was generally believed that the spontaneity of the artists’ approach to their work would draw from and release the creativity of their unconscious minds. The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself. Text Box: Dave Watkins Tom’s thirty-plus years of experience as a photographer, jazz flugelhorn player, web designer and painter have taken him around the globe exploring the abstract in dozens of cultures. Using acrylics as his media, Tom’s designs are a unique blend of color and texture, resulting in a fluid meshing of swirls, geometric designs and soft linear movements. This latest series of images by Tomasz asks that color carry most of the weight. Tomasz has added viscosity to his pigments, sometimes juxtaposing a thickly trowled impasto against a thin stain, at other times introducing jazzy metallic hues and translucent gels. In some works he’s also included the use of irregular shaped rectangles, triangles and lines.