“The picture became a screen, illumined by dark light, articulated only by a few colored fields which rise from the ground and sink back into it. These screens of light have nothing more in common with framed pictures; they symbolize the great, unlimited, universal space surrounding us, in which the numen has its place. Only the suggestive, hypnotic power of color determines the idea and content.”

– Werner Haftmann

Working upon past predilections in color-field and minimalist painting, Denver artist Nicholas Silici evokes a non-representational style all his own. Unlike his predecessors, Silici adheres to a natural sensibility inspired by his environs from which to express himself artistically. Integrating an innate sense of color usage in collaboration with a 'sub-surface,' of concrete, Silici summons a complex, textural beauty that defies conventional modes of abstract expression. It is upon the concrete and therein where Silici's layered areas of color are finished with a fine, polyurethane coat resulting in a luster that embellishes the clarity of the composition. The enlarged presence of his shimmering fields of color exists suspended between the geometric square shape, the observer's retina, and the form-giving intelligence of the artist. His emblematic square forms create a circumscribed yet fluid order, keeping our attention intensely occupied in a problematic dualism of structure and chromatic elaboration. Nic Silici's current body of work exemplifies an ongoing passion for the exploration of geometry and landscape through a lens entirely his own.

Gilbert I. Barrera

Director/Curator

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