December 2002

Ross Barbera
Ronkonkoma, New York
ross@artfine.com
www.artfine.com
MFA Pratt Institute

I am a painter currently working on landscape images that integrate a representational look with a painterly airbrush technique. My paintings document the visual interaction that occurs between small streams and ponds with their surrounding landscape environments. It is also my intention to compose works that communicate a feeling of peace, and invite the viewer to enter comfortable image spaces, evocative of contemplative states of being.

Involved in an ongoing exploration of the forest preserves of Long Island, upstate New York and Massachusetts, I photograph the landscape in search for images that conform to my concept of the ideal. My paintings are constructed from these photographs, which I translate onto the canvas using a loose freehand airbrush technique.

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