William B. Rhodes
 Painting
Martinez, CA
925.228.8468




brhodes@gavers.com

Untitled (a variation on the Africa suite) 2008
Mostly house paint on canvas, 20.5 × 25.5

Some painters become as one with Nature through their painting, and they give the viewer the opportunity to share the experience. Others explore Truth and Beauty and condemn injustice, pursuing noble goals. Still others synergize the paradigms of Intellect and Emotion. Many are deeply involved in creating new paradigms.

As far as I know, I don't do any of those things. (I must admit, though, that synergizing paradigms sounds like fun.) They're paint on canvas. They don't mean anything. They're for being looked at and taking up space.

Media: Paint and paintlike substances on canvas or something else.

Style: Nonobjective, minimalism, none
of the above.

Subject matter: Paint

Influences: Colin Chapman, Grover Cleveland, Iris DeMent, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Edison, Helen Frankenthaler, Samuel Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Townes Van Zandt, Andy Warhol.

Untitled (based on the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow,"
by William Carlos Williams) 2008
Gesso, house paint, acrylic, watercolor on unprimed canvas, 16 × 24