Greg Stoner Impasto Cityscape Oil Painting "City View"

Item Details

Greg Storer (American, 20th century/21st century)
City View
Oil on canvas
Signed to the lower right

Greg Storer's pictures stem from his most personal memories and from the intimate
depths where they have matured, and so everything begins with photographs, childhood
photographs (of the family, characterized by their changelessness) those of youth and
early adulthood (photographs of American Football which he played and which are
marked by their intense dynamic). Far from wanting to confine himself to the exactness
of memory or delve into the its specifics, Storer seizes the photographic souvenir: he
isolates it from the precise moment in which it was born, dissociates from the places
that have nurtured it, erases the details of bodies and faces, forsakes the colors, blurs
the clear lines of the original image in order to capture the intrinsic elements of light and
movement and assert the importance of the bands of subject matter and of the facets
brushed aside. By distancing himself from the unique features of memory,
counterbalanced by the avouched presence of pastels as a painting medium (limited to
a range of blacks, grays and white) and by the use of planes which evoke
cinematographic art, Storer reveals the core of his artistic approach. Thus, every viewer
comes to see these pastels as fragments of stories in which he invents and inserts his
own path through life. The instant laid bare by Storer suggests a piece of a story in
which we can imagine what went before and what will follow, we are attracted by the
zones of shade and light and by the mystery unfolding there.

Condition

- minor cracking to paint; slight billowing to canvas; minor wear to frame.

Dimensions

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Item #

ITMGP37962