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JOHN WALKER: RECENT PAINTINGS
John Walker’s paintings are more or less impossible to categorize. He is an abstract artist
whose work resonates with subtle references. At various times, his canvases have been
loaded with elusive images, coded messages, symbolic forms, patterns, and on occasion,
readable texts, conjured up with dense pigment, now sensuous, now gritty, and full-bodied
color, now brilliant, now moody. We are attracted by the apparently abstract, forthright
whole, then focus on suggestive shapes. We may even imagine that we have deciphered a
hard-to-grasp reference, but we soon abandon …