“Ever Ok Ever’’ (acrylic over mixed media), by McKay Otto, in his show at Atelier Newport through Jan. 22.
The gallery says:
"McKay wants the viewer to have the feeling of not entering an artwork but a sanctum filled with ethereal light. McKay believes in the invisible , underlying reflections inherent in natural light like color and its reaction with light. McKay's work is abstract, drawn in part from the ordered universe and leaving any recognizable imagery - figures, landscapes, material world behind. Transparent-lucent acrylic canvas is his signature material, and painting and sculpture are his preferred gestures. McKay is as confident of his mastery of reflecting light to produce ethereal colors as he is his artistic vision and his ability to see the possibilities within light and beyond. McKay thinks of ways to work with the powerful forces waiting in the light just to be reflected. But the other side of this is the powerful ability to read the possibility inherent in the light and it's his intuitive sense to look at a material object and just know that there is an art work there ready to be transformed and transcend itself in his almost ephemeral state of mind necessary for achieving the unthinkable".
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"Everyday I play with the light of the universe to find a way to a deeper dimension of reality in which all paths might ultimately converge."
- McKay Otto
