A few weeks ago I enjoyed seeing John Dubrow‘s paintings. If you look at them on screen, they might look like tasteful, unassuming paintings of people and cityscapes.  You might overlook them…  But that is not the impression you get in person at all. If you love good paintings, the sort of paintings with visual logic so dense, so rich, well thought out for solid presence and most of all just for the sheer pleasure of tasting the colors, textures, compositions, rhythm, shapes and all, you wouldn’t want to miss the show. I kept going around the gallery seeing each painting 4, 5 times. I just couldn’t get over how the modest impression from 20 feet away turns into an intricate mosaic of colors and shapes alive with harmony and rhythm of the brush strokes.

Here is an artist who spends an enormous amount of time trusting the result he gets from the magic of paintings and they actually work before your eyes. That’s especially encouraging for any artists who work that way. Because there aren’t many who manage to do that today.