Sydney-born George Byrne (b. 1976) creates large-scale images that depict landscapes as painterly abstractions. Comparable to the works of Lewis Baltz and Ellsworth Kelly, Byrne鈥檚 collage-like images 鈥 taken from the New Order and Color Field series 鈥 utilise the process of reduction. Flattened lines and interjectory shadows become part of a wider dimensional puzzle that revels in texture. An alluring interplay between concrete and colour is at once minimal and deeply complex; through abandoned sidewalks, luminous bollards and pastel awnings, the seemingly anonymous nature of Los Angeles architecture is illuminated. Ultimately, surfaces become a hive of possibility; the banal metropolis is translated into a multi-tonal playground. As the artist notes: 鈥淲hilst the images remain portraits of the city, they also become more abstract in their intention 鈥 based on a true story but open to interpretation.鈥 .
