Star Gazer

OME ARTISTS paint their back yard; John Torreano takes the entire cosmos for his subject. For over three decades he has been making huge multimedia paintings that are based on photographs of outer space, especially those taken by the world-famous Hubble Space Telescope. In Torreano’s vision, these astronomical documents become gorgeous works of abstract art. The paintings are monumentally sized, made up of multiple panels, and their effect is to dwarf and surround the viewer, much as the vastness of space itself