Phillip Gross
I know that my experience in filmmaking and theater play a hand in what ultimately ends up on my canvas. My compositions often contain re-occurring characteristics; low or high angle perspectives, compressed telescopic viewpoints, strong contrast in lighting, and a practice called “contre jour” meaning painting into or “against” the daylight. My goal is to bring a landscape forward, press it, vertically stretch it, imbue it with saturated colors and drama so that you ‘the viewer’ feel you are standing in the painting and surrounded by it rather than viewing it from afar. Its front row orchestra. unless of course it's one of my aerial views. Then it's crow's perspective..
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Davis, CA, 95616-3631
