8/18: New Vaino Kola Painting
Vaino Kola, Causeway Tidal Flats, oil on canvas, 44" x 56"
We've been waiting for this one. For about a month, Vaino has been working hard to put the finishing touches on Causeway Tidal Flats. Finally he called to let us know that there was nothing more to do; it was finished. We rehung the front room of the gallery with this and some of his earlier paintings, and as usual, people are drawn in from the sidewalk in awe. At first it might strike the viewer as photographic. Some viewers though, might be struck more by the way this selection from the landscape works as an abstraction, the band of watery blue curving toward us across a horizonless, textured surface. Then, as you're drawn toward it, you can't help but be astounded by the intricacy and scope of the detail.
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