William Dubin: Watercolors
William Dubin's watercolor paintings explore a unique vision of the contemporary landscape. Mr. Dubin uses his immediate environs as a point of departure for excursions into form, color and almost hallucinatory rhythm, without ever completely abandoning the real life subject, the landscape, from which the paintings are derived.
The paintings have affinities for past painters, including Maurice Prendergast, Charles Burchfield, Georges Seurat and Monet, although those painters are never directly quoted in the work. Rather Dubin's watercolors have evolved out of the aesthetic space that those painters carved out for themselves.
William Dubin's Interest in the watercolor medium dates back to early teenage explorations in Los Angeles. At the time California was a hotbed of experimentation in the medium, primarily from the group of painters commonly referred to as the "California Scene" painters. Alhough throughout his artistic career he has been primarily known as a sculptor, he has also worked consistently in watercolor through those years and to the present.