‘1970-1977’ by Robert Duran @ Karma Gallery
It is a burst, it is. A burst of color. The colorful is a wonderful splash. Inescapable from that healthy gravitational pull. Not into lust, but into love.
‘Untitled’, (1970). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 102 × 141½ in. (259.1 × 359.4 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
Such affirmation of grandeur and therefore of magnitude with Robert Duran at Karma Gallery is to captivate the senses into that rarity of space. It is to elevate, by necessity of the task the artist has worked to bring into the world as…Joy? Love? Certainly Beauty.
‘Untitled’, 1972. Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 83½ × 95 in. (212.1 × 241.3 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
‘Untitled’, (1972). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 32 × 68¼ in. (81.3 × 173.4 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
‘Untitled’, (1972). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 86¾ x 114 in. (220.35 x 289.56 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
A watercolor potpourri yet with the hardness of synthetic, industrial paint-stick.
But it is with that extension of imagination and therefore mind that humanity is graced with more knowing of the good.
Harmless.
‘Untitled’, (1972). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 68⅜ × 79¼ in. (173.7 × 201.3 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
Inquisitive.
‘Aqua’, (1976). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 79⅛ × 93¾ in. (201 × 238.1 cm). Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
Retreating.
‘Untitled’, (1975). Robert Duran. Acrylic on canvas, 90 × 119 in. (228.6 × 302.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
As if retreat is defeat? As if the hollow pale is pallid? A generous giving is an extension unto appetite. It is this balance of a clandestiny to the gentle. A vigor without vinegar.
These abstract dreams are also available in watercolor. A Medium which, knowing the fine arts, is always of a smaller dimension, due to the delicacy of the working media itself.
‘Untitled’, (1976). Robert Duran. Watercolor on paper, 22½ × 30½ in. (57.2 × 77.5 cm), 30⅛ × 38 in. (76.5 × 96.5 cm) framed. Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
‘Untitled’, (1975). Robert Duran. Watercolor on paper, 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm), 25⅝ × 31½ in. (65.1 × 80 cm) framed. Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
‘Untitled’, (1973). Robert Duran. Watercolor on paper, 12 × 18 in. (30 × 46 cm), 19½ × 25½ in. (49.5 × 64.8 cm) framed. Courtesy the artist’s estate and Karma Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
Here, the private disappointment is in that hope for continual largesse.
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