Abstract gallery

Non-referential abstract painting gives Race the opportunity to explore free flowing intuitive feelings that may refer to specific life events. They percolate and develop then are “taken out and emptied onto the canvas”, woven together with the formal aspects of painting. By the time a painting is complete, specific references to personal experience may not be visible but an emotional quality of the experience may remain and be felt.

There is a “duality” to this work that deals with the exterior and interior or physical and soul. It manifests itself through the use of value structure, which Race calls “between Dark and Light”, as well as shape, veiling, and vertical divisions of the canvas or panel.

His muses are external: the marks and scars of experience on the body, the patina on surfaces from ancient petroglyphs to rusty metal, peeling paint and cracks to contemporary graffiti. The internal also inspires: the effects of experience on the soul and spirit as well as contemplative observations of nature and civilization.

A Gulf of Y's

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 70 x 48 in (178 x 122 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Edge of Fog

2016 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Four

2016 • Acrylic on panel, 36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Fog of Words

2016 • Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 60 x 54 in (152 x 137 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Niagara #1

2016 • Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 59 in (104 x 150 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Habitat

2016 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Niagara #3

2016 • Acrylic on panel with canvas, 48 x 48 in (122 x 122 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Niagara #2

2016 • Acrylic and on panel with canvas, 36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Ritual

2016 • Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 72 in (137 x 183 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Vestige

2016 • Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 72 in (137 x 183 cm)
Photo by Colin Talcroft.

Winter Tangles

2016 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Blue Heart

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 72 x 108 in (183 x 274.32 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Ebb Tide

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 60 x 72 in (152 x 183 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Echoes

2017 • Acrylic on and graphite on panel, 56 x 41 in (142 x 104 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

In Situ

2017 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

In Situ #2

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 70 x 48 in (178 x 122 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Large Torso

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 72 x 108 in (183 x 274 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Large Torso #2

2017 • Acrylic on unstretched painter’s tarp (canvas), 72 x 108 in (183 x 274 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Niagara #4

2017 • Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 54 in (183 x 137 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Opening

2017 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Portal #2

2017 • Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 54 in (183 x 137 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Tangled Words

2017 • Acrylic and charcoal on panel, 48 x 40 in (122 x 102 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Vestige #2

2017 • Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 54 in (183 x 137 cm)
Photo by Grant Taylor.

Untitled

2016 • Acrylic on paper, 22 x 44 in (56 x 112 cm).
Photo by Colin Talcroft.