by Carol Knowles
David Hinske is after something rarified almost ineffable in “transcendental
vocabulary” at Art Under a Hot Tin Roof in this exhibition of nonsensically
titled luminous abstractions. Hinske asks
us to let go of visual and verbal associations, to play in fields of
free-flowing color shot through with light.
Barely visible thumb-sized smudges in several of the paintings conjure
up the first bits of matter coalescing and the first artist making his/her
signature mark with a chunk of charcoal in a Paleolithic cave. The rest
of Hinske's boundless and effervescent surfaces bring to mind cotton candy and
Technicolor amoebas. Like Beth Edwards' surprisingly powerful rubber duck
portrait of bliss, Hinske's melted-popsicle pools of radiance are also a joy to
behold.
