PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Karen Duffek and Robert Houle, Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge, Museum of Anthropology, 2007, page 57, reproduced page 56

EXHIBITED
Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge, June 22, 2004 - January 30, 2005, traveling in Canada 2005 - 2007
Dilys Leman, Beyond the Formline, Robert Davisdon's Abstract Edge, Vernisagge, The Magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, Winter 2007, pages 8 to 10, reproduced page 8

Commenting on this fine work, Robert Houle states in the 2004 exhibition catalogue Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge: “The abstraction in Green (2002) is, for example, an evolving form done with minimal use of colour, line, and form. It is carved in low relief with a sparse application of acrylic, a masterful utilization of carved and painted line. Davidson creates a composition that reveals a feathered creature with split forms. Placed between two parallel diagonals on the surface of the rectangular red-cedar panel are two three-point split forms and an ovoid. Together, the arrangement of the economical and stylized ovoid and lines creates a balanced painted bas-relief, recalling the long pictorial tradition of using carved and painted surfaces. The left, slim, green diagonal is a carved wedge while the right one is a carved edge that leaves another plane; the rectangular cedar becomes a painted relief, its abstract image achieved by using such pictorial techniques as in the spatial handling of painted or carved split forms, ovoids and lines. The rendering is one of abstraction and ambiguity, but the geometry belies a raven or an eagle-it is an ambiguous narrative. The prerogative claim of allowing the viewer to complete the visual meaning is what makes this work open; one can simply enjoy its balanced image.”

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