After an exploration of geometric morphological forms—the square, the rectangle, the circle, arrays of stripes, lines, and dots—time comes to bring the elements together.  Abstract forms and representations of the Circle & Line series have led to easily recognizable landscapes. Thus, the artist returns to the structural forms of her youth but with the eyes and techniques of maturity.  Solids, intense colors, and geometry, the Bibel hallmark, persists.  This page is the result of several works of early development and exploration of entirely imaginary structures.

The source cities are recognizable but the paintings do not depict them as they are. Architecture is reduced to core lines and buildings are seen mystically, the intensity and contrast of hues akin to that perceived with prolonged meditation and other means of  altered consciousness.

Whether or not this morphological branch will extend into further evolved patterns or will become a truncated tributary remains to be seen.

Debra Jan Bibel

MORPHOLOGIES:
An Exploration, An Evolution

City Synthesis

These images are part of an ongoing series begun in autumn 2008, presently totaling 15 works. This page is of mature, recent paintings.

See: City Synthesis — Developmental Stage

[NOTE: All images fail utterly in even hinting at the quality of the actual paintings and their effect on the viewer.