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Horizontal lavender purple landscape acrylic painting on canvas, 25 x 55 inches This contemporary horizontal landscape acrylic painting on canvas evokes romantic and nostalgic thoughts while being unmistakably modern in color and structure. In the foreground, a beautiful monochromatic lavender is used to paint a textured rural field. Tall trees cover the horizon in the distance, accentuating the bright purple sky. Mr. Britell's dreamy and ethereal landscapes are dominated by a single hue; their monochromatic lavender, mauve, periwinkle, and pastel purple reflect off of loose brushstrokes and delicate paint handling, a change from the artist's usual hard edge realism method. Artist Biography: Richard Britell is a self-taught painter who studied with Philip Pearlstein and Walter Erlebacher at Pratt Institute. His first exhibition in New York City at Staempfli Gallery was a sell-out and received favorable reviews in the New York Times. Britell's recent paintings include expansive, dreamlike cityscapes that veer toward abstraction. The artist resides in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Amy Illardo is a Long Island, New York-based abstract artist. Amy had an early interest in visual arts as a means of self-expression and introspection. She started her art education at Parsons School of Design, first attending a pre-college program in France and then finishing her foundation studies in New York City. There she was exposed to color theory and Josef Albers's The Interaction of Color. She attended Syracuse University after finishing her foundation year, where she studied photography, art, and film production. She earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts after missing the vitality of New York City. Amy's art is based on an investigation of color. Her art incorporates geometric patterns, free-flowing abstractions, and layered florals. Regardless of category, color and the connections that form from its interplay are always the primary emphasis.
Monochrome artists often add excitement to their works by experimenting with new materials and inventive approaches. Lucio Fontana chopped up his monochrome paintings into three-dimensional sculptures, challenging the canvas's two-dimensional character. In the 1980s, Park Seo-Bo, a Korean artist, began sketching fine lines all over his monochrome white canvases, imparting a feeling of texture and rhythm. Ecriture (which translates as writing in French) is a series that depicts not just the Eastern tradition of calligraphy, but also the spiritual path toward self-purification. While Park Seo-works Bo's are textured to evoke the purity and tranquillity of Buddhist meditation techniques, American artist Jessica Dickinson gouges and etches thick layers of paint to evoke a sense of misery and decay. And the work is never in vain. Without a topic to gaze at, viewers spend more time contemplating the many hours spent by painters applying layers and layers of paint, scratching and ripping the paint, and savoring the resulting textures.
