August 2010

Ruptured Walls: Flower Paintings

Corwin Levi’s flower paintings transport the viewer into a vortex of nostalgic, youthful wonderment. The fantastical imagery of his work is so visually commanding that the intensity of dreams, ideas, and space are literally punched through the canvas.

Levi equates these gaping surfaces to transitioning phases in life. The openings produce a sense of movement and oscillation from whimsical dreams in childhood to the propitious memories of adulthood. Yet movement is not uni-directional. Each piece evokes within viewers a sense of time’s forward motion and memory’s equally powerful backward descent. Impulsive memories infused with electrifying dream-states engulf each piece as lines twist, sheets fold and crinkle, and pops of color drip down the canvas. Why not live the way one dreams?

Visit Levi’s website at www.radiosebastian.com.