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Thirty-Six | John Gurbacs | Original Oil Painting
Thirty-Six | 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
One orange leaf arcs across the whole canvas, lower left to upper right, and it's marked down the spine with dark, irregular speckling, almost like blight or insect damage. A little unsettling next to the otherwise clean color around it. Rust and burnt sienna fill in behind it, pale cream edges catching light down in the lower left corner.
Green barely shows up here, pushed to the right side and one lower corner, more of a footnote than a competing color. Nothing in the composition asks for your eye first, it moves the way it would across a real thicket of leaves, not a tidy studio arrangement.
| Artist | John Gurbacs |
| Medium | Oil on Canvas, Framed |
| Dimensions | 18 x 24 in |
| Certificate | Certificate of Authenticity included |
| Shipping | Ships worldwide with full insurance |
| Payment | Payment plans available |
Collector's Note
A warmer-toned piece within the Nature Series, the speckled orange leaf giving it a rougher, more weathered feel than the cooler pieces in the same group.
Acquisition
Available through Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans available. Private viewings by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings available for collectors anywhere in the world. Contact us to inquire. New to collecting? Read our collector guide →
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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.
