I was just at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art admiring the Stephen Batura\u2019s show Edits<\/em><\/a> with his wonderful acrylic paintings that were based on his collages of fashion. However, its difficult to see the \u2018fashion\u2019 in his art because of the closeup views and chopped up angles. That\u2019s what makes this artwork so interesting to me.\u00a0\u00a0Stephen Batura\u00a0has<\/p>\n

a focus on texture that extends beyond the given context.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above\u00a0quotation about his artwork resonates with my own intentions in my Arborglyphs<\/em> artwork<\/a>. Texture is the focus,\u00a0NOT the representation of the original image. While Batura\u2019s paintings seem quite abstract in a glance, upon much inspection you see elements of reality \u2013\u00a0the flow of drapery, the collar of a shirt, or a portion of a body part.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also like the way Batura uses triangles and other sharp angles that seem to overlap and collide with each other. There is a sense of layering here. However Batura\u2019s use of a typical rectangular canvas with the angled imagery centered on top of a bland background color was boring. \u00a0I think the\u00a0paintings would have been more effective if he had created \u2018shaped\u2019 canvases.\u00a0 I created many shaped paintings <\/a>in the past, and found that makes for an interesting departure from the typical horizontal shape.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art admiring the Stephen Batura\u2019s show Edits with his wonderful acrylic paintings that were based on his collages of fashion. However, its difficult to see the \u2018fashion\u2019 in his art because of the closeup views and chopped up angles. That\u2019s what makes this artwork so interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,4,37,1],"tags":[148,149,146,147],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arborglyphs","category-artists","category-exhibits","category-inspiration","category-uncategorized","tag-angles","tag-shaped-paintings","tag-stephen-batura","tag-texture","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}