A myriad of brilliant hues occupy the downstairs gallery of the Community Arts Center in Danville, Kentucky. Clusters of paintings line the walls, boasting the great creativity and productivity of a prolific artist: Billy Hertz. “ReInterpret: Contemporary Landscapes” is an impressive collection of nuanced paintings exploring the dichotomy of representation and pure abstraction. Billy Hertz is an incredibly skilled painter. He masterfully utilizes formal elements: color, composition, depth, balance, shape, and scale. “Fields #1” features horizontal stripes of bold red and yellow, broken up with a painterly swath of deep green receding to enhance visual depth. The repetition of scale is balanc
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