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"Evelyn's abstract paintings are full of intense color and movement which she attributes to her heritage and having an intense feeling for color and rhythm."
PHILOSOPHY
Evelyn Lopez de Guzman executes her vibrant abstracts with lyrical delicacy all her own. A rainbow of vibrant, pulsating colors and moving energetic interlocking forms is what is in store for the viewer of her paintings. Evelyn's abstract paintings are full of intense color and movement which she attributes to her heritage and having an intense feeling for color and rhythm. Her paintings are a result of her physical and emotional surroundings. She draws her inspiration from the shapes and objects surrounding and affecting all of us daily.
Evelyn strives for abstractions devoid of any standard set of psychological references except those of the observer. Lopez de Guzman’s range of color is extraordinary, from richly keyed up color, to subtle softer tones. She combines areas of textured surfaces occasionally to create and aura of mystery and illusion. This reminds the viewer that the paintings do indeed have a purpose: that is, they are intended to engage us. The viewer’s eye moves with the elements in the paintings. The variations contained in each work--be it line, color or tactile material--draw the eye to the surface of the canvas or into the intricate spaces between the lines and shapes. Occasionally the design becomes so complex that one has the sense of seeing another illusion behind the shapes. Some seem quiet and serene; others are dazzling.
It is said that painters are lured towards heroics through the use of all over abstraction. Many of Evelyn Lopez de Guzman’s paintings contain patterning all over, but her works aren't burdened for the sake of mere styling. Her paintings are covered with moving, rhythmic forms. The artist is guided with the notion of achieving a balance of form, color, and varying thicknesses of texture and materials used in particular to each work. Sometimes the forms and textures are contained within the shaped canvas. Sometimes they are an integral part of the design itself. The artist enjoys working with the shape of her canvases when composing her work.
Evelyn begins her works as simple line drawings which when transferred onto the canvas take on an intricate life of their own. The paintings are carefully rendered. The separations between hard-edged shape spaces are accomplished by the use of masking tape. In some of her harder-edged paintings, playful geometric optical illusions create excursions into fanciful spaces that maintain the integrity of the picture plane. Mrs. Guzman uses intervals between shapes that create more dimensional visual effects than do most "hard-edge” painters, who normally paint dominant shapes edge to edge without any interval.