Text Box: Sunny S. Raschke

Text Box: Edge Gallery and Studio

Text Box: Visionary and Experimental Art

Text Box: My work is all about making visible the forces of creation, what the pioneer of abstractionism Wassily Kandinsky a century ago termed the “spiritual in art.”   My paintings emphasize the power of color, the fluid expansion of line, and at times a sense of three-dimensionality within the canvas.  I try to paint the formative process itself as opposed to the final form and composition.  I want to take to a new level the idea of abstraction - first developed by the Expressionist movement in the early twentieth century.   My paintings are “original” because they are always originating something.  They offer a personal, but not necessarily a private, vision.  Some of my paintings also oscillate between pure abstract form and figuration.  This kind of figuration, which runs the gamut from ancient trees and missions to dancers to towering cityscapes, is designed mainly to reveal the spiritual and often complex energy behind those things we ordinarily see without a deeper sense of “sight.”    Whether figurative or abstract, my work gives the viewer a kind of immediate intuition of the creative and dynamic process that makes the material world come to life.   With as much of an innocent eye as I am capable I seek to bring to canvas what might be called the “God force,” the force of creation.     

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