This card is an abstract artwork created with ink and airbrush on archival paper. Because the palette leans toward a harmonious interplay of warm and cool tones, it evokes both celebration and serenity.
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In Two, intersecting planes, arcs, and suspended spheres create a visual dialogue between balance and movement. The cool blue palette is energized by restrained orange accents, while layered transparencies and diagonal vectors suggest shifting spatial relationships rather than fixed forms.
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)”
A Modern Creation Myth was titled after completion. It is not a narrative piece, but rather an image of vibrant, abstract and elemental forms, combined with its ethereal color transitions. When finished, the overall composition struck me as an expression evocative of creation myths. Continue reading “A Modern Creation Myth (2021)”