The "Archipelago" series is a minimalist exploration stemming from the artist's formative college years in New England, a period defined by extensive travel across Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. This experience, steeped in the region's stark beauty and enduring maritime spirit, translates into a series of highly distilled, reductive forms.
The composition, a study in negative space and essential geometry, evokes the isolated yet connected nature of the coastal islands—the archipelago. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionist masters, the work embraces the spontaneous yet controlled line.
The limited palette and emphasis on texture capture the fleeting, often harsh, light of the North Atlantic. It’s a quiet, monumental abstraction of memory and geography.
Ink on organic Italian canvas, framed behind museum-grade acrylic glass in an waxed oak handmade frame.
