BLOK PARTY

MODAA ended 2006 with an exhibition of large-scale paintings by Carmel artist, Lucas Blok. Like other artists that MODAA selects for exhibition, Blok intuitively explores the spatial relationship common to both art and architecture. His paintings emanate and pulse with a quiet complexity, using subtle variations of soft and hard edges, geographic orientations, and stimulating color contrasts.

“I try to find colors that allow the viewer to open up to experience sensorially.” To avoid textural distractions, Blok airbrushes acrylic paint onto his surfaces. These atomized pigments produce a mysterious density. For visual dynamics akin to rhythm, pattern, and syncopation, Blok composes with neutral shapes--bands, rectangles, lozenges--and varies the crispness of edge, intensity of color, and verticality / horizontality.

Blok’s seemingly spare world of simple shape and harmonious color vibrates with an inner life that, with contemplation, becomes a rich visual involvement of emotion, intellect, and spirit. For more information about Lucas Blok’s artwork, including paintings that were on view at MODAA, contact lucas@lucasblok.com.