reed danziger 10/3/07 Description: abstract paintings Comments: Similar to another artist, Meg Brown Payson, whose site I reviewed last Sunday, Reed Danziger seeks to bring order to "too much information" in her abstract paintings. "I'm always working towards that point of conflation in the painting where it provided over-information, but also perfect information." Payson had referred to "a moment of fit" at which time a painting emerges from its initially disordered state. As one reviewer of Reed's work puts it, "The ultimate satisfaction for Danziger comes in the final day or two of detailing the painting's surface, when the work begins to speak for itself." The intricate patterns and glorious colors found in Reed Danziger's works strike me as simply magical...
Meg Brown Payson 9/30/07 Description: abstract art Comments: "That every painting emerges from the same chaotic conditions speaks to me of the unpredictable complexity and instability of meaning in the world, but also of the inevitable, if very temporary, moment of finding it." Starting with a disorderly array of dripped and poured colors, abstract artist Meg Brown Payson sees each painting as "a place where a balance can be found between inchoate sensation and a definitive mind, where meaningful order can emerge from too much information and too little certainty." In the end, she hopes to find "a moment of fit" of its various parts. And she does...