Patrick Heron,
4 September-5 September,
1996.
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david ebony's
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Patrick Heron
at Salander O'Reilly
Nov. 5-30, 1996
Patrick Heron, a veteran English painter
and writer born in Leeds, is well-known in
Britain (a Tate Gallery retrospective opens
in 1998), but this show is his first in New
York since 1978. In these large brilliant
canvases, Heron conveys an experience of
light. He attempts to pick up where Bonnard
and Matisse left off in terms of an
exploration of light through sparkling
color on a white ground. His means to that
end is an exuberant brushwork akin to the
Abstract Expressionists by way of late
Picasso. Heron's book, The Changing Forms
of Art, written in the '50s, effected my
thoughts about art, and these terrific
paintings, the first of his I've seen in
person, may change the way I look at art.
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