Current Work | Entropy Series | Early Abstract Expressionist work | Bastoky Gallery

“First Street”
Mixed media, acrylic, watercolor on paper
30" x 40"
1990
SOLD

“The Wall”
Watercolor, colored pencil on paper
36" x 40"
1986
$2,500

The “Buildings in Entropy” series. Images from industrial pockets of anonymous urban areas, show Nature re-calling it’s raw materials back to their origins. These paintings ask the viewer to consider that the material world is only a facade; an illusion that falls apart under scrutiny. Buildings and street scenes in various stages of external disrepair, may cause one to wonder, what if anything, is going on inside? Are we willing to look beyond the obvious and envision the possibilities?

Attempting to create beauty where none exists, among other things, I am addressing what I think is a basic human need to seek balance between the internal and the external world.

One of the goals for this series is to dare the viewer to experience the common as the uncommon and to pay attention to what we most often ignore: the present moment.

The images shown here are part of a series of 10 painting produced between sometime between 1985 and 1992.

All images copyright 1986-2005, Gary Bastoky
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