Edward Lilley

Fill Her Up

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash

photo. digital print.

11″ x 14″ (unframed), 20″ x 16″ (framed)

2022

Time passes. Things come and go. Do we notice? We still drive cars. What is the future? But nature and regrowth never stop.

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Edward Lilley

Jagged Blue

Deformed aluminum and acrylic paint

10″ x 10″ x 4″

2023

Order and chaos can create beauty, that is my approach. The randomness in both the deformation (scrunching) and the spraying of paint helps me to achieve my goal. The scrunched cells are in a sense regular but then each one is different. I avoid subjectivity and reference to anything outside of art. My abstract art functions on its own terms.

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Edward Lilley

Colorama 2

acrylic on deformed paper

10″ x 10″

2023

Deep textured abstract color mix. This is the third one of my 3D paintings shown at ArtsWorcester this year.

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Edward Lilley

Cave

deformed thick paper and spray paint.

26″ x 20″ x 3″

2023

How to create mystery, vary color and shape in abstract art is my question. Here I present another answer in my series of slightly three dimensional paintings.

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Edward Lilley

Place Setting

Inspired by: Mixteca-Puebla Artist, Tripod Bowl

micro-cracked glass vessels

15″ x 15″

2020

I have worked with glass art for a number of years but rarely showed it. From my professional materials science back ground I have had an interest in the fracture of brittle materials especially high tech ceramics. That work was to understand the failure of the ceramic. Glass fracture is more interesting than ceramic fracture because crack branching occurs in glass leading to numerous fracture lines. This is demonstrated in the micro-fracture of the repurposed vessels shown here.

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Colorama

deformed paper, angled spray paint

18″ x 24″

2022

I have been making deep textured, three-dimensional paintings — my own innovation — that appear almost elemental in form. This is accomplished by a mix of painting and the deformation of the paper. Typically the painted paper will finish up one inch deep. The colors vary with the viewing angle.