“Venaglia plunges us into a highly personal, charged and poetic relationship with our perceptions of location... within each carefully articulated composition, is humor both satiric and lighthearted.”
- Ruth Aldrich Housatonic Chronicle, Connecticut
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“Diebenkorn Sighting One- PCH”
by Mark Venaglia - 14” x 18” casein on canvas
Currently part of the silent auction benefiting The Venice Family Clinic, by invitation of the Exhibition Committee.
At the base of the California Incline, no more than thirty feet directly west, exist the ruins of a roadside shrine. Without this structure of eroding concrete walls, Richard Diebenkorn’s revolutionary “Ocean Park Series” might not have been birthed. His work is labeled many things, but I find these pivotal paintings to be portals of harnessed gas and atmospheres through which we may enter other dimensions.
Representational and Abstract simultaneously define each other; detail of the PCH shrine
Above - 3 paintings from the “Ocean Park” series by Richard Diebenkorn