Kimono
William Masterson
Created : 1994
Donated : 1996
Medium : Painting/Acrylic
Dimensions: 14.5 inx11.5 in
Located: 2nd Floor,Senate Gallery West Entrance
Masterson’s paintings and drawings have rich, sensual surfaces that reveal the importance of the painting process itself, exposing the starkness and purity of color and shape. Masterson explains that his paintings are referents to subjects, implying but not defining:
“The configurations in the recent paintings have their source in previous representational work, but no longer seem to be subject matter. They come about through the act of painting, and that is their primary meaning. There seems to be a limited selection of these configurations, a flower-like group of marks, for instance, that changes from painting to painting and recalls different referents in each: first a flower, then a butterfly, then again a flower. This constant mutation interests me and is a continuing stimulation.”
William Masterson was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1945. He received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is represented in the collections of the University of New Mexico Art Museum; the University of Oklahoma Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; the University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson; and the Museum of Albuquerque, among others.
