In a hut 1991

Oleg Holosiy painted this oil on canvas, “In a Hut”, at an unknown date. The color palette is mostly dark, like nighttime. You can see a hut, or some kind of construction, maybe a building. And then there's the sky. I can imagine Oleg making this, working into the night with only a lamp for light, painting away, and then scraping back. The paint looks thin, allowing for glazes and transparent layers. I wonder what Oleg was thinking about when he made this? Was he just trying to record an image, or was it more like an imaginary vision of something he might have remembered? Artists have been painting at night, or about night, for centuries, so this feels like part of an ongoing conversation. It reminds me a little bit of Albert Pinkham Ryder, but more haunted. It’s loose but intentional, like he knew what he was doing even if the outcome was unknown. Painting’s like that, you know?