Ann DeLaurentis,

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The intent of my structural landscape images - mostly urban in nature -has swayed back and forth from "post-preccisionist" or post-painterly abstraction to a more sensual and textural capturing
of space and surface. For me, this involves creating non-gestural structural images of connecting planes of color that come together to depict a space that wraps itself around the viewer, using
high-chroma, wet-on-wet watercolor techniques.

The images in this category of work range from extremely simple geometric forms, through the cubist influence of extending lines into surrounding planes, to the more detailed use of window
reflections, shadows, copper roofs, and industrial towers to create pattern and rhythm. I allowed each subject to influence a slightly different exploration of this range. But throughout, the
main theme for me is color. The bright burning of vermilion and red, the cool touch of blue and turquoise, the palest of greens merging into yellows - these are the subject of my heart as much
as the beauty of the city spaces that I see every day.

The compositional process of "seeing" spaces and then communicating those spaces in a painting has evolved for me, with the results becoming more abstract, while still retaining the impression
of the space I originally saw. The urban landscape in my work has become more universal, and less specific to a particular site, which in the past may have been only recognizable or appreciated
by those intimate with the space.

The images above were mostly painted in the range of years from 2004 through 2009. The images below are earlier works, several of which I have kept in my collection.