Art: Glow

I am drawn to all manner of things, moments, visions that, for lack of a perfect term, glow.  Pieces that emanate light, which are translucent, opalescent, reflective, you get the idea - shiny things. The works of current art world darling Jacob Kassay and of venerable visionary Anne Appleby both embody, in strikingly different fashions, this elusive light.  Mr. Kassay achieves his results by painting canvas with flat-white acrylic and then dips it into an electrified silver solution.  Per Julie L. Belcove's writeup of the artist in the October 3, 2011 New Yorker, "the resulting patinas vary from shiny-abstractly reflecting, say, a colorful dress sashaying by - to burned looking oxidation."  Ms. Appleby's creations shown below exude light from a combination of oil and wax on canvas.  The artist's interest as a painter "is the fragile and ever changing phenomena of the temporal work in which we live.  There is a subtle and rich beauty in our lives when we honor this seemingly obvious truth."  Indeed.

Jacob Kassay Untitled

Jacob Kassay Untitled



Jacob Kassay Untitled



Anne Appleby March Aspen 2010

Anne Appleby Winter Landscape



Anne Appleby/ Panza Collection