All in A Day’s Work, A Painter’s Abstract World

All In a Days Work, circa 2014:
  • Top right, Untitled (Big Diamonds) – collection of the artist
  • Right, Untitled (Black & Pink) – private collection
  • Right bottom, (Blue Cloud) – private collection
  • Leftmost, (Orange & aqua) – private collection
  • Left wall middle, (I’m a materials girls I)
  • Middle floor, Untitled (Hemera) reclaimed wood sculpture – collection of the artist

Studio, Claremont, CA – 2014

Everything was happening at the same time. Sometimes paintings were made with tape exclusively, with reclaimed materials, or just paint. Additional bodies of work sprouted from the works in this picture. No cookie-cutter template, or imposed consistency on the production of each piece. Non-Objective painting or Non-Objective abstraction is what they have in common: as in the explanation by the Tate Museum:

“a type of abstract art that is usually, but not always, geometric and aims to convey a sense of simplicity and purity”.

The What to do with small paintings? question led to the way of the arranging of these works as in the Radius Abstractus installation at University of La Verne, CA in 2014 – 2015. Augusto embraced The Tall Wall Space exhibiting area with a cluster of over 20 abstract paintings linked to a central cardboard wheel with aluminum tape strips.

cardboard disk with metal spokes jutting out towards different abstract works on a wall
Untitled (Radius Abstractus) – detail, 2024 -2015 – private collection