熔岩质地粗糙的多色画作

观众第一次看到迪伦·格比亚-理查兹(Dylan Gebbia-Richards)的大型油画似乎从他们的画布上消失时，华美的纹理爆发了。他粗犷的作品反映了自然形态的结构，如熔岩或珊瑚。“我把我的作品视为他们自己的风景画，”格比娅-理查兹(Gebbia-Richards)告诉我们说。格比娅-理查兹从浩瀚的自然世界中获得灵感，他的艺术作品探索微观与宏观结合的美学。他说，即使是我的小作品，我也在向外扩展，试图创造一个更大的地方的感觉。“就像观察山脉一样，他的画作的规模给人以灵感和愉悦，而他大胆的调色板为每一件作品增添了一丝魔力。”这位艺术家的作品看起来好像是通过火山爆发而创作的。为了模仿这一过程，他用彩色颜料和融化的蜡滴构建他的绘画。“我最初发现滴下来的和溅出来的熔化的蜡非常令人满意，”Gebbia-Richards说。我感兴趣的是融化的蜡所产生的痕迹的质量，特别是在我融化的那张纸上滴溅出的混乱图案。他的画通过把水滴和飞溅的水渍分开而显现出来。正是这些不同颜料、水滴姿势和飞溅物之间的随机交互作用创造了分层纹理

Credit: Wes MagyarBreathtakingly colorful textures pop out when viewers first witness Dylan Gebbia-Richards’s large-scale paintings which appear to escape from their canvas. His rugged works mirror the structure of natural forms such as molten rock or coral. “I see my works as their own landscapes,” Gebbia-Richards tells Colossal. “I allow chance, the driving force behind all natural phenomena, to sculpt the structures of my paintings.”Gebbia-Richards gains his inspiration from the vastness of the natural world and his artworks explore aesthetics that merge between the microscopic and macroscopic. “I find the enormity of the natural world awe-inspiring,he esplains. “Landscapes which are immense seem intimate simultaneously; counter-intuitively these large spaces create the feeling of an embrace.”Credit: Dylan Gebbia-RichardsCredit: Thomas MeyersWhile Gebbia-Richards’ paintings vary in size, all are built to engulf the viewer. “Sometimes this is very literal like in my room-sized installations which encompass those inside,he says. “But even with my smaller pieces, I’m looking for the work to expand outwards, attempting to generate the feeling of a place which is much larger.” Like observing a mountain range, the scale of his paintings inspire and delight, while his use of a bold color palette adds a hint of magic to each creation.Credit: Stephen IronsideCredit: Dylan Gebbia-RichardsThe artist’s works appear as if they have been created through a volcanic eruption. To imitate this process, he constructs his paintings by using colored pigment and droplets of melted wax. “I initially found dripping and splattering melting wax very satisfying,” says Gebbia-Richards. “I was interested in the qualities of the marks the melted wax produced, specifically the chaotic patterns of the splatters which sprung from the drip’s impact with the paper I was melting over.”His paintings emerge by separating the dripping marks from their splatter. It is these random interactions between the various pigments, drip gestures, and the splatter which creates Gebbia-Richards’s layered textures that are signature to his practice. You can see one of the Colorado artist’s paintings at Looking For U at Unit London which runs until August 26, 2018. To view more of his work visit his website and Instagram.Credit: Thomas MeyersCredit: Steven IronsideCredit: Danielle WebsterCredit: Thomas Meyers