Cheleb 

Paul Feeley created "Cheleb" using oil on canvas. It is a painting, yes, but look at how the oil paint has been handled, thinly applied, and brushed with a deliberate informality, not to say a studied casualness. The central motif is a symmetrical form of what could be described as a lobed lozenge shape. It's almost a Rorschach blot. This orange figure is the result of an exercise, a task to be completed: to lay down fields of color, each delineated by crisp outlines. The blue lozenge in the center, neatly bordered by white, is the result of the same approach. These paintings can be understood as exercises in a particular kind of mark-making. Not just in applying the oil paint itself, but in deploying color, shape, and form with near-mechanical repetition. With this awareness we can begin to see all kinds of handmade objects differently. Recognizing the labor, the human input, in mass-produced items can be unexpectedly liberating.