Description

Curatorial Narrative Abram Games’ “Keep a Guard on What You Say” occupies a singular position within the realm of Geometric abstraction, its creation dating back to an era when Modernist ideals were beginning to supplant the ornate flourishes of Art Deco. The artist’s deft manipulation of form and color yields a still life of unprecedented tension, as if the very objects depicted vases, flowers, and fruit are on the cusp of bursting forth from their geometric confines. When enlarged to 44×66 inches, the palette’s chromatic structure begins to dominate the space, its interplay of purple, blue, yellow, red, white, and black imbuing the surrounding environment with an unmistakable atmospheric weight. The compositional structure, initially reminiscent of Art Deco’s crystalline facades, assumes a more dynamic quality, as if the very spatial rhythm of the room has been synchronized to the artwork’s rhythmic pulse. As material pairing,