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...structure of Ablow??s paintings is far from haphazard. Each painting is deliberately structured and painstakingly worked and reworked, giving it an architectural quality. In works like “Rhymes” and “Markers,” the shadowed bowls form a visual cadence of repeated circles and jagged triangles, while the negative space is carefully framed to act as a balancing counterweight...
Ablow cites artists Fra Angelico and Piero as some of his greatest influences, and one can feel the quiet and stable Italian Renaissance sensibilities at work in his paintings. However, Ablow??s paintings are not all serene harmony and immaculate balance. There is a considerable amount of distortion and tension as well: tabletops swerve away from the horizon, cups tip up against the laws of perspective, and drapes fall in completely unnatural ways. In “Studio Dialogue” a jar is partially-hidden, as its left side has no visible correlation with its asymmetrical right...
Like Cézanne, Ablow toys with the construction of space. Ablow paints objects on the brink of chaos and objects that appear as if they could collapse on themselves any moment. Coupled with their stability, this tension is what brings the viewer back, spell-bound, to Ablow??s work...
...learned from Oskar Kokoschka), these paintings glow with blues worthy of Picasso’s Blue Period and warm coppers worthy of Georgia O’Keefe’s canyons. In works like “The Mantle” and “Tuscan Shadows” Ablow??s objects are suffused with a ghostly iridescence. The color in the smaller gouaches, however, is not as successful, and the glaring colors sometimes clash in a muddy jumble...
...Joseph Ablow??s “Recent Paintings” will be on view at the Pucker Gallery (171 Newbury Street, Boston) through May 23. For more information, please see www.puckergallery.com...