Sebastian Black

It is hard to detect, but the curving, overlapping forms in Sebastian Black’s paintings are based on the image of a cartoon puppy. On occasion, you can detect a paw or a muzzle, but in most works, the features are abstracted beyond recognition into ovoid and wavelike forms in restricted palettes, recalling Latin-American modernism. The face of the puppy may have been recognizable in past iterations of the series, but in these works any clearly identifiable image has been subsumed under more stylized compositions.