The Third Book on Light and Shade : Steven Seinberg

In his newest body of work, The Third Book on Light and Shade, American painter Steven Seinberg advances an almost three-decade long exploration of the forces of nature and their cellular connection to our psychic equilibrium. What was once tranquil and undisturbed in earlier iterations, has now become marred with an investigation into the essential qualities and forms – the birth – of light and shade. Seinberg produces starkly split canvases – both a periphery where darkness emerges from light and vice versa – articulating what Leonardo Da Vinci theorized to be primary and derived shadow. “Shadow is diminution of light. Darkness is absence of light.” Da Vinci writes in his Third Book on Light and Shade, from which the exhibition takes its title.