NYAB Event - R. Wayne Reynolds “Infinity Takes Forever”

R. Wayne Reynolds “Infinity Takes Forever”

Studio 26 Gallery

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“In this series of paintings, I offer my visual description of the Universal Energy that holds our world together. It draws me in, spins me around, and on a good day, allows me temporary access to the private internal space where my creativity lives. It simultaneously drains me, and frees me of myself. I experience a connection to the cosmos, causing me to feel more like a whole beach and less like a single grain of sand. I strive to paint what I am feeling at that moment in time, without concern for what came before or what will be next. My only goal is to capture and share an image of the continuousness that I believe in. I pay homage to the Impressionists and their celebration of complementary color, to da Vinci for his relentless pursuit of merging art and science, to the precision of the Dutch Still Life masters, and to the creativity of Picasso.”

“By painting in reverse, I use the acrylic sheet as a unifying flat “lens” to level the paint and draw you in, much like when an image is viewed on a computer monitor or mobile device. I consider these paintings to be “maps” of both the imaginary, internal space in my mind, and the vast unknown external space in the universe. I use the Infinity Symbol to represent myself as a vessel to navigate through a visual territory that I have made public and consider worth sharing. As with other mapmakers throughout history, I am driven by the love of discovery, combined with an unquenchable thirst for new frontiers. I invite the viewer to enter these spacescapes to explore, to consider, and to remember, that INFINITY TAKES FOREVER.”