August 25, 2009
Auto-Matic Abstraction
The surrealists had “automatic” abstraction; channeled images from the subconscious. I shot these pictures out of a car window. With their zippy vertical lines, they remind me of Barney Newman. Anyway, the colors are pretty, and the surfaces look painterly in an Abstract Expressionist kind of way.
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By Mark Lamster
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