My works are an invitation for the viewer to engage and observe over time and appreciate color interactions and relationships to light and surroundings. The paint and other materials are used in a workmanlike, matter of fact way to the best of my abilities. Most of the work is painting (oil paint on canvas) but I also like to make other objects that demonstrate concepts involving painting and seeing.

 

 I have been working with formal ideas from a historical and contemporary viewpoint beginning with breakthrough ways of considering space, form, the picture plane and the rectangle of the canvas that happened with Cezanne and then extended forward through time to the present day. Of course painting is more than just formal ideas and hopefully along the way a personal poetry appears although perhaps as an aside.                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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  Contact: witmer.mike@gmail.com

 

(717) 285-3856

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