Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20The memory of what has passed is ever present in my work. Not as nostalgia but in awe, with profound gratitude. carl palazzolo Carl Palazzolo has described the central themes of his work as memory and the passage of time, impermanence and loss, longing and desire. He has employed many different images and motifs to express his sensibility, sometimes mediated through references to other artists, from Monet to Sargent to Johns, as well as Italian filmmakers of the 1960s. The Hours, 2014, is composed of twenty-four canvases arranged in a grid of four rows of six. Each canvas is a satisfyingly com- plete painting, but the composition in its entirety broadly summa- rizes key aspects of his recent work. Clouds, numbers, rose petals and an ensemble of evocative objects—a yardstick, a light bulb, a clock, an unfolded cloth, a folded pink shirt—are all caught in the embrace of minimalist yet painterly abstract fields. The painting furthers the dialogue between realism and abstraction long cen- tral to his work. Maine has been Palazzolo’s summer home for thirty years. Arriv- ing there in the spring of 2015, he began painting on eight-by-eight inch panels, a diminutive format that allowed a new measure of improvisation and technical experimentation. Some of the paint- ings are observational, others entirely abstract. It was only when he returned to his studio in Houston in the fall that Palazzolo rec- ognized the degree to which the range of color and subject were indelibly anchored in Maine. The paintings had begun to take on the identity of an ongoing series that he thought of as Maine Notes. The episodic nature of the fifty-one paintings reflects the grace of specific moments, experienced in the present and filtered through the artist’s sensibility. The results are both a continuation and a reinvention of Palazzolo’s vision and touch.