Written by Barbara A. MacAdam

Narrative abstraction looks at expression in the broadest sense, addressing everything from motion to storytelling to music and even mystery in the way forms and colors relate to one another and evolve through implication or suggestion, and in the way viewers interject storylines or action based on their own perceptions. 

A work of art evolves through the sequencing of elements-- time, color, space, and shape.  The work may be intentionally constructed or composed of random effects. Whatever the case, the artist’s choices, constitute a visual record– a narrative progression, in effect-- that can result in an implied movement and in the art itself. 

Narrative abstraction looks at expression in the broadest sense, addressing everything from motion to storytelling to music and even mystery in the way forms and colors relate to one another and evolve through implication or suggestion, and in the way viewers interject storylines or action based on their own perceptions.