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Crotons Sunrise | John Gurbacs | Original Oil Painting
Crotons Sunrise | John Gurbacs | Original Oil Painting
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Original oil painting by John Gurbacs · Available at Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide
Split clean across the canvas, the top half holds a Bird of Paradise flower caught close enough that its orange and blue petals read as a burst radiating outward from a single point. The bottom half returns to familiar territory, croton leaves in green, orange, and black, fanning from their own center the same way.
Where the artist's other close studies of foliage leave the comparison implied, one painting at a time, this piece makes it literal, stacking two entirely different plants directly on top of each other in a single frame. A flower and a leaf cluster, different species, different structures, and the same underlying geometry showing through both, visible in one glance instead of across a whole series.
| Artist | John Gurbacs |
| Medium | Oil on Canvas, Thin Wooden Frame |
| Dimensions | 48 x 36 in |
| Certificate | Certificate of Authenticity included |
| Shipping | Ships worldwide with full insurance |
| Payment | Payment plans available |
Collector's Note
The most direct side-by-side comparison in the artist's plant studies, two different species built from the same radiating logic, shown at once rather than implied.
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"We can see that the branches of a tree are similar in form to a bolt of lightning, or that rings of Saturn resemble the rings of water in a puddle. Yet they exist separately in time, space, and scale. There exists an order of continuity throughout the different realms."
John Gurbacs
About the Artist
John Gurbacs is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow with over fifty years of continuous practice exploring the fractal geometry hidden inside nature, the recurring patterns that connect a tree branch to a bolt of lightning, or the rings of Saturn to the rings of water in a puddle.
His process begins in the field. He photographs construction debris, tropical foliage, microscopic patterns, and underwater scenes, then builds collages until a connection reveals itself between forms and scales. From there he draws, then paints, some pieces taking months to complete.
His work sits in the permanent collections of the Tampa Museum of Art, the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, the Polk Museum of Art, and the USF Contemporary Art Museum, along with commissions for Tampa General Hospital, Holland and Knight, Tampa Electric, and the Volusia County Courthouse. He has completed five major public murals across Florida, including the Sulphur Springs Mural, the largest of his career.
