This work is a continuation of my investigations into the correspondences among color, form, and visual dynamic in terms of their psychological and perceptual effects/affects. Using an intuitive and poetic approach, the work aimed to formulate an abstract language which would cause strong emotions in the same way music does.
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This black-and-white painting is a Homage to Josef Albers (1888-1976), a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States.
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Begun in the early 2020s, when people were increasingly talking about AI. The AI concept was an appealing starting point because the AI painting of Amy Ione is not at all based on artificial intelligence. Continue reading “Unfinished: About AI (Amy Ione)”
Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585) was a Genoese School painter and draughtsperson. He visited Rome at least twice and Michelangelo was a powerful influence on the massiveness of his figures, although a softness of modeling perhaps has more in common with Correggio. Because some of his figures are constructed using simplified cubic shapes, they look remarkably modern.
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Amy Ione
Title: Sketch (35665)
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.75 inches (unframed)
Unsigned
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Rainy Day Monday is a small, compact painting created with both oil and ink. This combination juxtaposes some measure of painterly richness (from the oil) with sharper, linear, and tighter elements (from the ink). Perceptually, interweaving the media this way offers a surface with textural contrast; it is one in which boarder color fields play against the fine detail.
This unfinished circle grid documents my process.
Upon completion, the work was titled Gradations and Imperfections, and it was slanted to add to its resonance. The completed piece is here.
This unfinished composition on Masonite offers a glimpse of my painting process. The work was begun before I began my Neuroscience and Art book, which was published in 2024. This piece was set aside during the writing process and still awaits completion.
Circles—shapes associated with harmony and balance—form a central element of my visual vocabulary. While not the case here, at least not in this point of the image’s creation, in many of my works circles appear alongside ellipses. This is unsurprising given that an ellipse can be described as an elongated circle. In other words, the ellipse shape generalizes a circle, which is a special case of an ellipse. Continue reading “Unfinished Circles”
This is a perceptual experiment intended to convey the social dissonance in 2025. In it, the black, white and shades of gray play off the horizontal lines and a diagonal cue to create an optical illusion. At the same time, they point to the various ways in which life, society, and even ideas about what reality is are uncertain or unpredictable. Continue reading “Uncertainty and Dissonance (2025)”
Gradations and Imperfections is a circular panel animated by a dynamic checkerboard pattern, rendered in a palette of rich blue and creamy beige squares. Perceptually, it’s diagonal grid evokes a sense of movement and playful disruption. Each square and stripe varies subtly in hue and texture, inviting close examination of the painting’s hand-painted qualities. Continue reading “Gradations and Imperfections (2025)”