Through the years, an artist continues to evolve until eventually he arrives at a signature look or favored theme, inextricably associated with him in an almost proprietorial manner. Instant recognition of an artist’s work is itself a mark of his distinction and reputation.
Unknown to many, artist Eghai Roxas started as a Social Realist, decrying the political and economic oppression of his countrymen. With the downfall of the dictatorship and the return of democracy, Roxas travelled to the US and immersed himself in all the international trends. Departing from the intense figuration of Social Realism, Roxas was most struck and beguiled by the then emerging hybrid idiom of Abstract Illusionism bannered by the art of James Havard. From this visual epiphany, Roxas recognized the potency and vitality of illusion as a species of abstraction. The following decades saw a succession of his exhibitions which mined and refined the dynamics of illusionism.
In “Evolving Images” currently on view at Galerie Anna, Roxas introduces a density of paint and fluorescent lighting to levitating abstract forms casting shadows that slip from illusion into something almost physical and tangible.
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