KEN ORTON, (British, b. 1951)
"TLAS TLAS", 2009
canvas reverse, signed K.Orton, dated, titled and inscribed 20909, Venice, FL.
oil on canvas
36 by 54 in.

Cf. Ken Orton was born in Manchaster, England, during the mid 1990's he moved to the United States, he now resides outside New York City in the Catskill Mountain region. His early studies were as a figurative painter. Today the artist is best known for his photorealist depictions of glass, primarily glass jars and bottles. In these painting the artist creates an interactive surface where the glass through both refraction and reflection interact with other items in their surroundings. Light reflected through the glass creates secondary subjects, items visible in the glass become subject matter like the glass itself. The environment appears to constantly change.

Further, as stated by the artist " I use glass bottles to represent buildings in the teaching of landscape. I look through family of jars that sit on my kitchen table. The view never looks the same twice. The jars always seem to capture the weather, they seem to capture the mood. … jars act as lenses bending and reshaping light, they magnify and distort objects and surfaces that can be seen through them. They interact with one another and what at first appears to be a repetitive mass-produced industrial shapes becomes an endless mirage with an infinite variety of line, shapes, colours and tones."

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