The Angel Series - By Thomas Kirby

These paintings combine a contemporary approach to space and substance with a figurative aesthetic.  The Angels are drawn from great works of the early Renaissance.  They are subtly charged, however, with new meaning in an abstract context.

Surfaces break and crack to reveal layers of paint.  The process of painting is ultimately a process of consciousness.  Memory and fugitive states of mind are suggested.  These paintings are speculations about the nature of our awareness of time.

Even as the Angel figures echo down to us through history, we exist at a time both unique yet already deeply connected to the past.  These works are powerful metaphors for our time expressed in a symbolic and personal way by the artist.

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