Matt Higgins

Palm, Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting

2023

Excerpt from the Palm series 2023 - Present The artworks presented here depict palm-like plants in mostly nocturnal and enigmatic settings, often against mountainous backdrops and o...

This painting evolved over several months, undergoing numerous changes and iterations throughout its creation. Like many of the artist's oil paintings, it was allowed to rest at vari...

The Palms #2 (Abstract painting) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that are themselves often thick, and even sculptural. He scratches and scrawls across his surfaces, infusing visceral emotion and energy into the work. His imagery is so layered and dimensional that even his works on paper convey a sense of texture and depth. Critics have connected Baribeau to a range of aesthetic positions, including everything from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to the 19th century Hudson River School, and compared him variously to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. In truth, Baribeau employs a distinctive aesthetic voice that is personal and instantly recognizable, despite its multiplicity. His visual world is one where primordial, organic nature collides with the geometric, manufactured world, and where certain signature visual cues, such as black and white stripes, checkerboards, dots, and flashes of neon color appear and disappear. His work is included in several institutional collections, including those of the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Morgan Stanley...

Impressive contemporary abstract expressionist painting by Stephen Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 14H x 11L.