Don
Sorenson was
a Los Angeles based artist whose early paintings were interwoven
zig zags of color, progressing through different periods, ultimately
producing a large volume of work between 1975 - 1985 before his
death to AIDS. Beginning with his first show at the Nicholas
Wilder Gallery in 1975 through his death in 1985, Sorenson produced
a prolific volume of paintings & drawings, progressing from abstract
through a "Greek classicism" period, a New York "figurative series" and
finally back to the abstract. His paintings are in numerous public
and private collections.
"Practically
everything about Sorenson's art can be broken down into oppositional
terms. Rigid structure competes with gestural accident; pretty
pastels collide with garish, aggressive color; sharp angles parade
in undulating curves; metered rhythm becomes optically spasmodic
. . . . . Sorenson began developing his zigzag motif when what
is now generally regarded as the Minimalist cul-de-sac was
becoming increasingly apparent and the question of what to paint
had become an especially thorny problem."
ArtForum, Dec.
1979
http://www.donsorenson.com
