Current work and drawings by artist Luke Osborn. Initially from Sausalito, California, Osborn is presently based mostly in Rhode Island the place he’s finishing his BFA from the Rhode Island College of Design. These works are a part of a cloth experimentation into collage, mixing paper pulp and gesso, which is then layered and sanded to realize a particular texture and absorbency. Reduce paper and watercolour are equally layered in or sanded away till the picture kinds organically.
“I’ll generally take a look at early Renaissance painters for compositions, however I hope the picture seems by itself. I’ve heard the metaphor of ‘excavation’ being tossed round lots just lately, however in truth it’s a great description of the method. I’ve additionally observed a musical theme operating by means of lots of the latest works–each actually, with pictures of trumpets, musical notes, and theater scenes, and formally, with rhythmic parts that information the viewer’s eye by means of the portray.”
