In "(Large) New World," an extended horizontal painting that stretches the parameters of vision, technology seems to have won out.
The image on his rather small horizontal painting "Release" is an extended arm that takes on the weight and meaning of the earth itself.
The horizontal painting shows a woman standing beside the sea coast, looking out for her husband to arrive home from the sea.
The large horizontal paintings are all framed by faux-wood borders that enclose wide expanses of dusky gray encaustic.
That aptness is evident after experiencing the rich, brassy cacophony of the 13 big horizontal paintings in the show.
Their indeterminate scale also evokes models for urban plazas and bunkers as well as horizontal paintings.
He depicts violence closer to home, and further removed from natural law, in "War," a large horizontal painting from 1894.
The head of a man in the center of a long horizontal painting surrounded by eyes.
The second room features, more successfully, a large horizontal painting done in the artists' familiar and accomplished realist mode.
It's actually a horizontal painting; I'm sorry, it's actually a vertical painting, 78 by 59 inches.