Philip Gerstein:

These paintings arise from my perception and use of color as a vital, intense, electric, animating force. They would not exist but for the excitement of color relationships. As they are largely abstract and provide enough of an impression of movement, you may be tempted to consider them in musical terms -- color, movement, interval, balance, direction, duration. You need not resist this temptation…

 

I look for inspiration in both art and nature. Although I admire the past
achievements of both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, it is rather in work that predates theirs – Kandinsky and classical artists of the Far East – that I find more direct antecedents to my work.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT
Born and raised in Moscow, USSR.

 

I began exhibiting my work in the 1980’s with the Boston Visual Artists Union, after pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at Harvard U. Subsequently, I studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Japanese calligraphy with
Toshu Ogawa, and exhibited widely.

 

My most recent solo show was in April 2010 at Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston MA, which now represents my work. In the last several years I have exhibited in New York City, in Maine, and extensively in the Boston area. My studio is in Boston’s South End Art District.