“Land Structures”
Don Wass – Artist Statement
 
When I was fourteen years old, I was given a book about Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses.  Architectural, archeological, and geometric shapes have influenced my work ever since.  With hard edges against a background of loose form and color, and paint that fluctuates between ragged-edged and raw, to hard-edged and refined, my work is primarily an exploration of how color, texture, and composition work together in a translucent space, and how the architectural or geometric elements hold the compositions together. 
 
The “Land Structures” paintings -- acrylic on Arches watercolor paper -- combine overlapping forms of hard and soft edges but with a shallower depth of field and more transparent layers of color than in earlier works.  “Land Structures” explore above- and below-ground elements as examples of archeological stratification, and reflect on the ways in which human activities, like fracking and the burning of fossil fuels, threaten our planet.

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