Whitehot Recommends: “Field of Dreams” by Duane Bousfield at Upsilon Gallery - feels like gazing into a crystal.

 Duane Bousfield, Peace Valley

“Field of Dreams” by Duane Bousfield
Opening Reception Thursday February 29th, 6-8 pm
Exhibition on view from February 22 - March 23, 2024

Upsilon Gallery
23 E. 67 St. 3fl.
New York, NY 10065

“Like gazing into a crystal, facets of light pave the way through an enchanted realm.” - DB

In the poetic world of art, we find places to reflect, imagine, and feel. Intuitive and evocative, titles  resonate rather than define. The spirit of a theme is meant to convey basic human issues: hope, fear,  searching, striving, love, loss, life, death, God. The artist encourages each viewer’s own personal  interpretation, as it releases the inner poet. Abstract art expresses rather than illustrates. 

Feeling the colors and riding the lines through the composition, there is no need to translate the  experience into words. Paint techniques become subject matter in their own right through layers of  dry-brush, expressive scraping, transparent glazes and energetic brushwork. Layers of clear colors  raked atop jewel-tones blend in our eye like a TV screen, each hue singing out its part of the chorus.

At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tactile sensations. From  geometric landscapes to abstract dreamscapes and calligraphy, these works encourage us to imagine a world of luminous beauty for a highly personal visceral experience. Join us on a journey  through the artistic realm of Duane Bousfield, where the boundaries between imagination and reality  blur, and the possibilities are as endless as the human spirit itself.

‘If you build it, they will come.’ is central to the artist ideal of working from the heart to create art so  personal, it’s universal. Windows into worlds where dreams can play, we explore surfaces that reach into deep space in a  land of rhythmic lines that dance through the air. Seeming to fly through dimensions, foreground  and background weave together in a glittering interplay of opalescence and translucency. From  textures into pictorial space, we discover new depths of field.

The ‘Calligraph’ series of one-line drawings is an elegant shorthand for Bousfield’s abstract figures.  Harmonic and lyrical, seeing the line become animated is an exhilarating iteration of New York  Abstract Expressionism. We feel the line quality, see the speed of execution, and imagine into the  melodic forms. “Follow the line like a roller coaster or see the whole as a figure.” - DB Watching the  line weave through itself gives us the feeling of racing through fields of texture effortlessly. As a

continuous lines, they resemble Labyrinths and are in the tradition of the Japanese calligraphy circle,  Ensō, practiced by Zen monks as a meditation.

At the heart of Bousfield's work lies a lyrical celebration of color and tactile sensations. From  geometric landscapes to abstract dreamscapes and calligraphy, these works encourage us to imagine a world of luminous beauty for a highly personal visceral experience. Join us on a journey  through the artistic realm of Duane Bousfield, where the boundaries between imagination and reality  blur, and the possibilities are as endless as the human spirit itself. WM