Paul Kittlaus
Abstract Art
Color ar Play
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” Henry Moore is right. It is a way to push back against the darkness, the political, the efforts to lock us up in our fear.
I was an activist pastor for 50 years pushing back against the darkness. Abstract painting is a new expression of resistance. Georgia O’Keeffe said “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.” I seek through my art to spread light against the darkness.
For more information use contact form below.
unknown--given to me by Bill Moremen
Art provides a gradual pull in the eros of evolution.
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I am represented in New York by the Agora Gallery in the Chelsea District.
See my page on their website:
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