Multiverse #22

Comes framed and ready to hang in black floater frame. 

(Note: photographed in natural light which gave the painting a bluish cast; it's more white in person. The picture shot at an angle is more accurate as to color.) 

Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered graphite and other media. They are painted on fiber panels that can actually be carved into, something canvas doesn't allow. I have shown and sold them mostly in New Orleans, but as I do with all my work I make some in the series available online so that others will have an opportunity to collect them and they will not all stay here in the city. There are now examples in fine collections in Madrid, London, Beirut and other places, which gratifies me. I have listed a number of these Multiverse paintings on 1stDibs; you can see others by searching this site." 

“Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being loud or decorative. " 

Artbeit Zeitschrift (On prior series by the artist): “These paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 Painting comes in a black floater frame, ready to hang.