The progression of Bart Gulley’s powerful new paintings is elegant and measured, as through following a melodic thread. Gulley acknowledges the musical connection and adds, “My recent work incorporates my life-long interest in classic American graphic design and modernist architecture with the gestural approach to painting I’ve been mining for the last twenty years. To emphasize the contrast between gesture and geometry, I juxtapose a hard edge with a richly varied painterly surface, drawing from collage but interpreting it as painting. The contrasts define my work while also extending the American vernacular tradition into new territory.