John DiPaolo / Silhouette Inca #5 / Oil and Enamel on Canvas / 63 x 70 in. / 2008 / © John DiPaolo. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy the artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery
“It’s not about picture making,” he [DiPaolo] explained, “you can do that better with a camera. Painting is about soul and that’s what people see in it more than anything.”
For the past thirty years John DiPaolo has painted lush non-representational canvases in his San Francisco studio, driven by a passion ignited when he was a young child. An accomplished draftsman capable of rendering with verisimilitude, he worked in a hard-edged pop style until graduate school before abandoning references to the outside world in favor of a deeper engagement with the act of painting. Since then DiPaolo has created a body of work drawn from his inner resources. Dipping beneath surface appearances, he taps into a creative force strong enough to compel him to return to his studio day after day, filled with anticipation for the aesthetic adventures that lie ahead. [Read more…]
