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 March 27, 2003 / page 2

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palette for this work is significantly different from the last paintings. The soft grayish pastels colors are found in most of the work.  The brighter hues are composed of some stunning blues, various softer shades of blue and green and an occasional splash of vivid reds.

What does it all add up to?  To begin with, the sense of rhythm has shifted from a free-form animation to something suggesting a more mechanical or industrial sort of esthetic. A quality of visual tension is established between the upper and lower forms seemingly pushing against each other with compressed energy. Another way to look at the forms, dynamically, is as abstracted views of industrial pistons. A static view is to see them as directly referencing architecture. In past work Lipsky has challenged the power of the grid

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Pat Lipsky, Black Covert, 2002, oil on canvas, 60.75 x 79 in

with a playful loose approach to her forms.  With these paintings, the reductive treatment is more serious, more conceptual and leans more toward the grid.

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