"Art should convey soul from one person to another; artist to viewer," says David Michael Slonim. His exhibition, Night Watchman, invites quiet reflection through his contemplative compositions, some of which are based on line drawings while others explore subtle relationships between spare blocks of color.
His recent color paintings, centered on circles or rectangles, distill Slonim’s mission into its most elemental aspects: tone against tone. “In Benediction, I wanted to set up a color situation that was as quiet as possible, and have it be something I would want to live with,” he says. “I eliminated almost all texture and practically all form, so the only visual event is the relationship between colors. I want it to work at the level of pure emotion.”
