Robert Ferrandini: New watercolors

On View: January 8–30, 2016


Robert Ferrandini has steadily been painting since his 2001 stroke, which rendered his painting hand unresponsive and challenged him to train his left hand. 

The current show includes ten new works.   All of the paintings are invented landscapes, perhaps based on an amalgam of what Ferrandini has seen in his limited travels, his imagination, or from the visual world of cinema, a pastime he continues to enjoy.  

The landscapes and seascapes are suffused with broad ranges of color and mystical phenomena.  Are we seeing fairies spirits flitting across the surface, or is that light seeping through overgrown leaves and moss?  The direction from which Ferrandini’s light originates has always been mysterious, and this work is no different.  In untitled (2014), the source of light appears to be from underneath a mountain.  The entire central landscape appears to be levitating or emerging out of darkness.  Are we looking through a window to a distant landscape, different from the one we’ve come from, to a far away place?