March 2005
Glenn Ossiander
Pacific Palisades, CA
glenno7879@aol.comIt has always fascinated me that two people looking at the same image see different things. My pictures, which might be called non-objective, abstract-expressionist color field paintings, (now there's a mouthful!) make no attempt to represent anything in a direct way. Yet people are always pointing out things they see in the pictures. Sometimes I can see these things too and other times they remain invisible to me. Although landscape allusions frequently sneak into my paintings, most of the time I'm trying to evoke a sense of energy, mood, light—and lately—a kind of meandering randomness. I've never been timid in using color. Living in Los Angeles has had an effect on the way I see color. Often the light in the city flattens it and other times it can be vivid. Where I live, along the coast, the light is usually clear and clean and the colors of the ocean, sky, mountains and foliage are brilliant. It is a wonderful environment for a painter.
