Untitled, 1989
Offset Lithograph
Edition of 90
22 x 21 3/4 in
Collaborative Printer: Bob Franklin
Heavily influenced by images and symbols of various global spiritual practices, Simon Gouverneur's work studies the relationship between language and mysticism. Working in egg tempera, acrylic, and oils, his work contains saturated colors, rigorous geometric patterns, numbers, letters, and readily identifiable symbolic motifs, like spirals. In Untitled, Gouverneur preserves and transforms the signs and symbols into his own visual language. His vocabulary included floral shapes, mandalas, spirals, grids, concentric circles, letters and numbers, as well as stylized Egyptian solar boat and other arcane images. Symmetry and asymmetry coexist, with neither predominating.
