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Maguire’s art unites the restless tension of modern abstraction and the primitive quality of traditional art in the same way that Picasso’s Toros were quintessentially modern and yet so astonishingly like the cave art of Lascaux. The shapes are tenuous and unstable, expressing simultaneous formation and dissolution which suggest the uncertainties of both primordial existence and modern life. Although these two periods of time are far distant from each other, Maguire has found their complimentary echoes in these mixed media paintings with their deep, rich tonalities, alternating transparent glazes and opaque layers. Gloria Trujillo Gallery Arcturus |
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