ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

uick glimpses caught through partially open doors or windows, tables and chairs in a cafe, newspapers, cups, a hand or coat sleeve, leaves of plants peeking in reassuringly, cars and streets, all bathed in warm, bright sunlight, are some of the elements upon which my paintings develop. What we dismiss can sometimes be a source of discovery and surprise. From intimate and ordinary scenes, I attempt to tease out abstract, linear orders and rhythms from the tangle of visual information. No object or figure is more central or important than any other. The sun illuminates indiscriminately. The soft light, shadows, careful rendering and exacting geometric choreography of my paintings are balanced on the fulcrum of realism and pure abstraction, thus making the pictures both compelling and disquieting. Their stillness, silence, and ambiguous emotional and narrative context reveal little. Instead they are distillations of the “now,” brimming with imminent and potential energy.

• Blue Door, oil on canvas, 40 x 36", 2007
• Mel's, oil on canvas, 54 x 36", 2007
• Good Coffee at the Orbit Room, oil on canvas, 54 x 36", 2007
• Straight Through to the Other Side, oil on canvas, 40 x 36", 2007
• Night, oil on canvas, 54 x 36", 2007

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• Resume: Steven Albert