Paul Baylock

Shift
24" x 48"acrylic on plywood

I was raised a Roman Catholic, where it is taught one has to bear one’s cross.  The cross is a symbol representing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which is the defining event for the Christian faith. I see the cross as a motif I can comment upon with some degree of familiarity due to my Roman Catholic upbringing. The dual nature of the cross; that it is both a joy and a burden intrigues me. I repeat the cross many times in some works as one would repeat verses and signs in the act of praying.

I paint in acrylic on plywood, using a lot of masking in a semi hard-edged manner.  I like to build up layers of impasto laid on with putty knife.  Lately I’ve been experimenting with collage elements under the layers.

Contact Paul Baylock:

158 Carlton St.
New Britain, Ct.  06053
860 229-2344
email - vista158@sbcglobal.net

Felix Bronner

889 Beengt (Squeezed)
Oil on Canvas
30" x 30" 2005

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Paper
18" x 23.5"

I was educated as a scientist and began painting some twenty years ago.  By attending adult education classes and workshops, and studying privately with accomplished artists, I felt confident enough in my newfound language to submit work for show.  I have exhibited in juried exhibitions, have won prizes, and have had one-person shows.  My work is in private collections throughout the world.

 One reviewer has characterized my work as “in a controlled but playful style, not unlike Chagall’s two distinctive abstract works.”  Another speaks of Bronner’s abstractions as “complex in their compositions, but never visually overwhelming,” “charged with beautifully orchestrated colors,” “stunning and gentle.”

 At another exhibition the reviewer speaks of “shades of beige and green that are so gorgeously exotic, they could only come from a lucid imagination.”

 A 2003 review in ARTnews speaks of my works as a “studied homage to the Abstract Expressionists, evoking Adolph Gottlieb, William Baziotes, and Mark Rothko in particular….Bronner layers transparent shapes over expanses of softened colors, with the occasional opaque geometric forms dominating the canvas…”

 Always interested in the three-dimensionality of collages, I have developed a series of abstract collages whose images are often in contrast with my more minimalist paintings.

ARTIST’S  STATEMENT
In my painting, I wish to appeal to humankind’s positive potential to capture the complexity of nature, as reflected in the interplay of shape and color, to respond to the mystery that surrounds us, on the large scale in which we move, on the microscale that underlies all matter.  In striving to reflect the shapes and colors of the world, I hope to emulate the many painters whose vision has been the essence of seeing.

 Contact Felix Bronner:

Website: Felix Bronner (www.felixbronner.com)
33 Ferncliff Drive
West Hartford, Ct.  06017-1013
860 236 5080
email - bronner@neuron.uchc.edu