Sara Wylie Walsh

Finite/Infinite

The paintings in this exhibit, created over the past two years, are based on ideas that go back many years. These ideas deal with three themes:  the metaphysical/spiritual, the urban landscape and biologic fantasy nature.

• Metaphysical/spiritual, seen in multifaceted non objective paintings.  The shapes are geometric with prism, kaleidoscopic  references.  From a fractured core emanates pulsating light as if from an initial cosmic event.  The shapes coalesce into groups and sub groups with infinite variations and connections.

• Urban abstractions reference the landscape’s divisions into patterns of associated units.  There are clusters, neighborhood groupings and connections that once again refer to the infinite variation of associations.

• Biologic fantasy nature painting suggests the multiplicity of random events in an imaginary invented space of a garden.  There is a tapestry of connections that bind together separate clusters into a vibrating whole.

Critical to the realization of my paintings is the simultaneity of oppositions and tensions: 

Part…………………Whole		Warm…………..Cool
Control……...............Chaos		Light…………....Dark
Order……………….Turmoil		Bright…………...Dull
Expansion…………..Contraction		Large…………….Small

Finally, the engagement of expressive color, light and the painterly process are significant in the formation of this work.

Sara Wylie Walsh
February 2009
FIG Gallery, Bergamot Station
          

© 2009 Sara Wylie Walsh