Continuing his exploration of collage, Christopher Beane's new Blaze works expand the concept of color theory and color interaction and presents the relationships between simple materials, texture, and painting in a novel way. 

Wooden panels brightly ablaze hinged with hand sewn canvas swathes encourage the viewer to contemplate the relationship of color value and hues. The interplay of these disparate elements creates a harmony and balance, simultaneously glowing brightly and kaleidoscopicly vibrant.

These brightly colored panels evoke hints of the vernacular and primitive art, hand sewn and painted, like a well thought out crazy quilt. Simple materials displayed in an unconventional manner challenge the idea of painting and how a painting should look. Disregarding standard perspective, the rawness of the canvas creates a congenial environment for each panels’ foreground and background.

Similar to Beane's Silk Avenue series of photographs, the foreground and background fuse together, complimenting and contrasting each other through color surface and texture.

In these times of uncertainty, frustration, chaos, confusion and isolation, we hope Beane’s Dante’s Blaze paintings evokes the feelings Christopher feels while he’s creating them:

ABLAZE with

Passion

Optimism

Courage

Hope

Renewal

and

Uplift

For more information, please contact Erin Tisdel, [email protected]