Waddington Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
William Perehudoff began his artistic career as a watercolourist while continuing to experiment with opacity in pigments throughout his later career as a Color-field painter. Using unprimed canvases, the artist applied a thin paint application that was absorbed into the raw linen. In “AC-85-10”, a wash of blue-grey pigments creates a soft foundation layer to the composition. Producing vibrant contrast and energy, the artist then applied bright vertical and horizontal bars of intense red, orange and pink across the canvas. These thick strokes of colour, painted with a glossy, tactile surface, appear to be floating in the calm grey space behind them, creating an alluring three-dimensional effect.
