Using a palette knife, Johnny Abrahams applies thick, layered swaths of elemental color to his canvases with oil and wax. His spare and striking compositions can evoke calligraphic forms and musical arrangements. Abrahams divides his canvases geometrically, imbuing his minimalistic paintings with a sense of order while also allowing room for free-flowing interplay between form and negative space; ideas of magnification, subtraction, and perception are crucial to his practice. With their built-up brushstrokes and reliance on illusion, Abrahams’s canvases can call to mind the experiments of Op art pioneers such Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez. The artist studied at Evergreen State College and has exhibited in New York, London, Copenhagen, Cologne, Seoul, and San Francisco. In 2014, he was included in an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California.
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