Elsewhere by James Edward Scherbarth

Bands of sea-colored paint with torn white edges. Elsewhere looks like a place you might have left.

Elsewhere is a 2018 painting by James Edward Scherbarth, in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board. Abstract landscapes like this are made for the quiet of a home or gallery wall, and cold wax gives oil paint the matte, chalky body this palette needs. Pale green, slate and teal stack up the board in wide horizontal strips, their edges ragged and white. A black wedge and a lavender wedge cut in from the left. Thin scratched lines drop down from the top, crossing the bands like a plumb line. Thirty inches wide and 40 high.

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