John Smith-Amato Exhibition
Synchronicity Fine Arts
This event has ended.
This body of work, developed over the past year, is indicative of Amato’s ongoing commitment to the semi-abstract bridge between the narrative and the sensuous, the verbal and the visual.
Highlights of the exhibition are some of the larger pieces: Graymoor, Sunrise: East River, Luminary Choir: St. John The Devine, Spring Snow, Rickshaw, Rockaway Morning; all painted loosely and personally, all driven by light, movement and textures balanced between abstraction and representation of nature. The dynamics of the larger works are evident. His use of color and texture are inseparable in their application and support of one another. Transcendent of linier illusions normally associated with the two dimensionality of easel painting, his use of line and atmosphere transform the two-dimensional surface into a space and context more sensuous than graphic, yet traditional in his use of the various picture planes addressed by predecessors. Amato’s personal connection to his motif is often idiosyncratic in its essence. He embraces both the sensuality of the abstract and a more literal narrative in the poetic balance of metaphor as sinuosity.
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Schedule
from April 29, 2008 to May 31, 2008