Jack Cymber’s spectacular mixed media compositions layer materials, colors, textures and forms, one on top of the other, to create beautifully complex and mesmerizing abstract expressionist canvases. Though the Canadian, Israel-based artist’s style of paint application evokes Jackson Pollock, the incorporation of found objects, rope, glass, metal, hair and more situates his work within contemporary art’s multi-disciplinary approach to traditionally separate media. Cymber combines cunning aptitude for painterly brushstrokes and juxtapositions of color with virtuoso sensitivity to sculptural qualities like texture and relief. These two rich facets of Cymber’s work—the painted and the sculpted—combine fluidly rather than coexisting in strictly delineated spaces.

Embossed geometric planes and forms become new compositional spaces for oils, acrylic paints, tars and other media to be applied in bright drips or dark gestural strokes. His playful paints take on wild and irrational characteristics, while the fundamental order of gently sculpted circles and squares organizes each canvas.

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