Abraham Mashinsky is an abstract painter, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was a distracted student. Mashinsky preferred to spend time exploring watercolor painting instead of focusing on his studies. After failing in school and proclaiming that he wanted to be a painter, his father sent him to apprentice at a theater design studio in New York, where he learned to create and paint large stage sets.
His early works have been influenced by cubism and in part by fauvism. He focuses on brightly-colored works that evolve into pure abstraction. The later works of Mashinsky seem like a perfect blend of his earlier artworks with bright color in a mosaic style and the geometric shapes of Cubism.
Mashinsky’s series of “Squares”, created in 2005, retained elements of representational art.
Over the following years Mashinsky continued to steadily produce works exploring pure abstraction with brightly-colored geometric shapes and designs. The most used element in his painting are the circles. By 2010, Mashinsky abandoned any objective references to real life.
In Abraham Mashinsky‘s new works, bright colors and repeated geometric designs create a powerful illusion of constant motion.
