Wish 7 Stephen Maine Halaburda’s work has been influenced

Halaburda’s work has been influenced by the city’s linear urban environment

focusing on deciphering the relationship between the natural environment expressed in his earth tones and raw primary colors

Bernadette Jiyong Frank employs multiple layers of translucent paint in her artwork

but in order to paint air I realized that I needed to paint things in it

Wish 7 Stephen Maine Halaburda’s work has been influencedThe threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting and at the same time a transparency is created that allows the viewer to enter through the lines onto the painted surface. The titles of each series can be interpreted as emotional, psychological and physical conditions. This work, part of the Wish series is a cropped, rounded shape with lines crossing it and they convey beauty and pain.