Maurice artist reflections: Invitation Opening 15 Oct 2015

For those interested it might be nice to join the opening; see invitation below.

Would be great to have you there

Maurice

Maurice
van Tilburg

Divergent Realities
October 9 - October 29, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 15, 2015, 6-8 pm

Road to Relativity Oil on Canvas 39.5" x 31.5"

About the Artist

Maurice van Tilburg’s paintings represent the journey towards deeper expression by combining the concepts of beauty and pity. Van Tilburg’s canvases brim with an alternating sense of hope and loss, with the contrast between them illustrated through a bright palette contoured by a dark textural movement. In that borderland between beauty and pity, the viewer glimpses the artist as an intense creator/achiever and also as a reflective man, and the struggles they both face in order to take what van Tilburg calls “full ownership of life.”

Van Tilburg’s discovery of deeper beauty through awareness of its fragility is portrayed by the radiant layers of oil paint and the omnipresent drip-like lines that both compose and obscure the art around them. The Gothic sensibility and impressionist references reinforce the overall sense of dislocation, expectant anxiety and alluring intimacy. In this regard, van Tilburg both holds the viewer at a distance and beckons them as close as they’re willing to come.

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