Red City - A Child's World 1962

Reva Urban made this, “Red City – A Child’s World,” and who knows when exactly, but you can imagine her there, maybe with music playing, pushing around some bold forms in black, red and yellow. I’m trying to get into her head now and wonder what she was thinking, making a world appear with just a few confident moves, probably thinking about Klee or Miro, as the cartoonish shapes suggest something playful but also kind of architectural. The red cylindrical shapes have an interesting tension: are they menacing, or are they kind of like happy accidents that just fit into place? It's cool how, in art, painters borrow from each other across time. It's a constant conversation, you know, and I am constantly looking at the work of other artists. No readings are ever truly fixed. This leaves it open to possibilities...