Plausibility, Emily Mason
Dismayed by my negative
response, she immediately
led me into the midst of a
gabby thicket and introduced
me to a slender sprite of a
woman with mischievous
pale-blue eyes. In a sea of
dark wintery woolens, Emily
Mason stood out in a trim kelly
green suit. She was indeed
about color. And a lot more.
The rich hues of her
abstract paintings swoop,
swoon and swirl across the
canvas as if borne on zephyrs
of delight and joy. The graceful
flow and movement of color
is buoyant and jubilant, as
opposed to so much of the
coloration seen in Abstract
Expressionism, which exudes
anger and angst. There are no
heavy squalls of careering black
lines, no inscrutable squiggles,
no allusions to grunge, no echo
of distress. They make you glad
you came in out of the cold.
HYLAND
