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My love for abstract painting goes back to before I began painting as a teenager. My earliest exposure was from a Life Magazine article on Pollack's paintings that left me spellbound; I was about ten years old. Later I had frequent visits to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to view the work of Modernists, Fauvists and regional painters. My first paintings and drawings were of abstracted landscapes, figures that often incorporated architecture. Painting for me has always been about how to approach and develop these things I was seeing into the conceptual and intuitive; moving between and around them or building upon a thesis.
The recent works are a synthesis, a bringing together of line, form and color to create a landscape / architectural hybrid that moves in and out of landscape. Often linear or intuitive but focused on the same conceptual foundation. Painted spontaneously I build my compositions from memory or earlier drawings and sketches, incorporating mathematical shapes and forms, the triangle, square, circle and forms built around those basics; components of architecture and habitat. I enjoy interacting with the surface of the work with scraping, carving out line and working with knife, brush and fingers, all tools that bring me to a place that feels correct, complete and most important an excitement of the senses.
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PAINTINGS
Recent and Available Work
Flux. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Birdland. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Turning Point. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
At Any Given Moment. 40 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2023
Terra Memento. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Some Echos. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Emerging Fields. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel 2024
Terra Memento 2. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Like Water and Stone. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Until Dawn. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Parallax. 40 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Cicero. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Undercurrents. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2023
Bouquet. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Chime. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Intersection. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Everything is Important... 30 x 30 in. mixed media acrylic on canvas. 2022
Deep Red. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2023
Vestages. 54 x 48 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas 2024
Prime Diredtive. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2024
Interlocking. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel 2023
Acoma. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel 2023
Upstream. 72 x 96 in. mixed media on linen. 2023
Bridge. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas 2021
Elevations. 72 x 96 in. mixed media on linen. 2023
Momentum. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Tone Poem. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Arc. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Discourse. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Tone Poem 2. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Blue in Green. 36 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2023
Streets and Avenues 10. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
From Summer into Fall. 38 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Tone Poem 3. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 9. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
From a Distance. 60 x 54 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2021 / 2023
Path. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 5. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Transition Zone. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2024
High Ground. 66 x 54 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2023
Streets and Avenues 6. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 2. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Rotation. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Stasis. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Moon Stories. 40 x 36 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2023
Turn Around. 48 x 54 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas. 2022
Gradient. 24 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2023
Winter into Spring 3. 27 x 19 in. mixed and acrylic on panel. 2023
High Ground Elegies. 36 x 40 in. acrylic and mixed media media on canvas. 2022
Arrivals and Departures. 36 x 40 in. acrylic and mixed media media on canvas. 2022
Streets and Avenues 11. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 12. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues . 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Body Language. 60 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2018 / 2021
Warm Ground. 30 x 30 in. pastel and acrylic on canvas. 2022
Occam's Razor. 24 x 22 in. mixed media acrylic collage on panel. 2022
Streets and Avenues 3. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 4. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Winter into Spring. 27 x 19 in. mixed and acrylic on panel. 2023
Beneath the Evening Sky. 36 x 48 in. pastel and acrylic on canvas. 2022
Streets and Avenues 7. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Streets and Avenues 8. 24 x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. 2023
Winter into Spring 2. 27 x 19 in. mixed and acrylic on panel. 2023
Skyrocket. 36 x 60 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Positive Space. 30 x 30 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Connected Segments. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Stationary Waves. 36 x 40 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Highway 12-2. 24 x 37 in. acrylic on panel. 2021
Hand in Hand. 30 x 36 in. pastel and acrylic on canvas. 2022
Second Nature. 30 x 30 in. mixed media on canvas. 2021
Avenue 2. 27 x 19 in. mixed and acrylic on panel. 2023
Highway 12. 24 x 37 in. acrylic on panel. 2021
Avenue. 27 x 19 in. acrylic and mixed media on panel. 2022
Any Moment Now. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Rift Valley Two. 54 x 30 in. acrylic on panel. 2021
Gateway. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
For The Most Part. 30 x 30 in. mixed media on canvas. 2024
Connectivity. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Sequential Navigation. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2021
Terms And Conditions. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on linen. 2022
Nowhere To Go But Up. 36 x 24 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Rift Valley One. 54 x 30 in. acrylic on panel. 2021
Stream. 30 x 20 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2021
Prime Directive. 30 x 30 in. mixed media on canvas. 2022
Dwelling. 48 x 54 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas. 2022
Elevation. 48 x 54 in. acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas. 2022
Selections 2024 A 52 page catalog of some recent selections of paintings from artist Barry Masteller with text and interview.
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Selections 2024 A 48-page catalog of some recent selections of paintings from artist Barry Masteller with text and interview.
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