Archives for October 2019

Bruce Habowski’s oil paintings are created in plein air and in the studio. Working outdoors allows him to immerse himself in an environment to better engage his senses and capture the nuances of colors. On some occasions, he uses the plein air painting as a study for a larger studio piece. What most informs the paintings are shapes that create a strong design and elements that comment on our contemporary existence. To characterize his paintings would be to call them events of the everyday. It is in these seemingly mundane moments that he looks for a potential narrative that could be used to reflect his view of the world. To strengthen his message, Habowski melds the realist tradition with poetic interpretation to arrive at a new filtered reality. His affinity with light is paramount in allowing him to give form to this new reality, thus elevating the subject and highlighting its uniqueness.