Solo Show of paintings by Maxine Solomon September 28, 2012

Artist reception Sept 28, 2012, 6 to 8 PM; Show runs Sept 22 through Nov 18

Although not the occasion for this Solo Show, Solomon will celebrate her 80th birthday during its course.

Of her paintings, Triton Curator, Preston Metcalf states, "In the realm of abstraction, the paintings of Maxine Solomon elevate the viewer to the experience of poetry. It is work of emotion and suggested metaphors through the use of color and emotive brushstrokes." Solomon uses both additive and subtractive processes to create a heavily textured and tortured surface. The resulting canvases sometimes contain as many as 30 layers of paint. Her images are drawn from her experiences working and traveling throughout the world. As she states, "I think, react and speak through my paintings. The paint itself becomes my partner - its texture, its vibrancy, its very nature becomes a crucial component, enabling me to process and speak of that which I see in our shared world." The differences between one person's perception and another's reality are subjects often dealt with in her paintings. They draw the viewer into a world that is at once landscape and imagination.

"The combination of quiet glazes with active brushstrokes helps to capture a moment in time, leaving the viewer to wonder if the image is merely an abstract painting or a colorful landscape. Delve deeper within the layers of paint to find hidden images and meanings or merely travel within these layers to see an intricate and textured surface.

At a recent solo show, Art Critic, Kenneth Baker said of her work, "Turneresque" may not be too grand a word to describe the recent work of Bay Area octogenarian Maxine Solomon. She packs her canvases with so much aesthetic information that they generate on their own the sort of pictorial storms and atmospheres that the British master of the sublime loved to conjure. She, however, has cast off the last vestiges of figure and subject and gone for sheer immersion."

Solomon has had many solo shows and this one promises to be among her best.

Official Website: http://www.maxinesolomon.com