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Owen Westberg’s paintings make me picture the inside of an eye. Not so much the retina, lens, and optic nerves—that frequently mentioned conduit of vision, which beholds the external world and packages it for perception—but the flickering, gelatinous, sclera-wrapped stuff that props up the whole enterprise of seeing. The vitreous body, the aqueous humor.
On five-by-seven slices of aluminum flashing, and slightly larger slabs of sanded birch, Westberg paints still lifes, views through a window, and landscapes captured in the vicinity of where he lives and works in Pittsburgh. Sometimes the composition is complicated by combining two or more of these modes; other times he introduces fictive space by painting floral patterns lifted from vintage fabric swatches, the result being evenly proportioned French gardens of the mind.
Outdoors he’ll paint watercolors, and then bring them back into the studio to transfer them to oil. There is no pencil, he sketches in...More
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Owen Westberg’s paintings make me picture the inside of an eye. Not so much the retina, lens, and optic nerves—that frequently mentioned conduit of vision, which beholds the external world and packages it for perception—but the flickering, gelatinous, sclera-wrapped stuff that props up the whole enterprise of seeing. The vitreous body, the aqueous humor.
On five-by-seven slices of aluminum flashing, and slightly larger slabs of sanded birch, Westberg paints still lifes, views through a window, and landscapes captured in the vicinity of where he lives and works in Pittsburgh. Sometimes the composition is complicated by combining two or more of these modes; other times he introduces fictive space by painting floral patterns lifted from vintage fabric swatches, the result being evenly proportioned French gardens of the mind.
Outdoors he’ll paint watercolors, and then bring them back into the studio to transfer them to oil. There is no pencil, he sketches in...More
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