Two Horizons, 48" x 72", oil and acrylic on panel, 1986. Artist's collection.

This piece is composed of six 24" square wood panels. This multi-panel format will be utilized exclusively in the first five works in the Multi-Panel Abstractions gallery. In this piece I was still pursuing the conceptual and visual structure which I spoke of regarding Arrangement With Zebra. However in this multi-panel arrangement I have replaced the color fields with design-oriented and pictorial forms of a representational nature. The pure black and pure white panels are a conceptual reference to duality. The split composition of inverted curvilinear forms addresses a visual concept regarding the malleability of pictorial space and time. The two "landscapes" or "horizons" are key elements in the sense that they literally portray an image from nature which embodies duality--earth and sky, form and atmosphere, mass and ether. The repetition of the landscape form functions within the overall composition to address (with a high degree of irony) pictorial issues relating to rhythm, pattern and sequence.