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| the Select Works below exhibited with ADA Gallery at VOLTA NY – An invitational solo project fair for contemporary art |
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Backsliding
oil on canvas, 34 x 36", 2015 |
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Novatny's work explores the tempestuous, storm-tossed seas of historical tumult, war, and disasters both private and public in a manner that simultaneously reflects the full sweep and powerful grandeur of their subject matter as well as reveals the astonishingly intricate and painstakingly rendered gradations of his stark palette, comprised mostly of a rich tonal fluctuation of black, white, and quiet grays, as well as muted earth tones.
His figures are like fragments of the past and present struggling to remain whole against the devouring waves and foreboding atmospheres exploding forth at the compositional centers of his pictures, themselves surrounded by the uncertainty of a blank white void. His solemn portraits of human fragility at times recall the spectral disquiet and mystery of 19th century photography or the peace and profound silence of an undisturbed sea torn asunder in paroxysms of exploded, and explosive, catharsis. His pictures depict a floating, gravitation-less fictive space where his subjects exist as lost, dislocated figures caught in forgotten human dramas at once distant yet universal and hauntingly familiar- a place where the fervent echoes and shadows of time resound over the immensity and vast stretches of a dark and mute world. |
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Terrestrial Jubilation
oil on paper, 13 x 14", 2015 |
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Venting the Netherworld
oil on paper, 14 x 13", 2015 |
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Bloom of Purgatory
oil on paper, 14 x 13", 2015 |
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Prairie Vagabond
oil on canvas, 58 x 50", 2015 |
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Drifter
oil on canvas, 42 x 48", 2015 |
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Expiring Foundation
oil on canvas, 42 x 45", 2015 |
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Depreciation
oil on canvas, 50 x 45", 2015 |
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Ceremony
oil on panel, 12 x 10", 2015 |
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A Degrading Access
oil on paper, 14 x 13", 2015 |
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Temperamental
oil on panel, 10 x 15", 2015 |
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Vagrant
oil on canvas, 42 x 48", 2015 |
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A Smoldering Tantrum
oil on panel, 14 x 14", 2015 |
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Deteriorating Edifice
oil on paper, 14 x 13", 2015 |
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Desecration
oil on paper, 14 x 13", 2015 |
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Petulance
oil on panel, 12 x 10", 2015 |
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| >link to his artist page here< |
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