David Webb’s paintings push at the same playful possibilities that John McLean, Mali Morris and the late Geoff Rigden all approached, from different directions; but his distillation and refinement signal a break from the expansive, atmospheric legacy of American and Canadian abstraction that inspired them. Here, a dynamic spatial play is conjured out of the blocking-in and blocking-out of discrete colour areas in subtle or incongruous combinations of hues that often fly directly (and to Instantloveland’s eyes, refreshingly) in the face of good taste.
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