Abstract Art Gallery

Some of Cardona-Hine's abstract acrylic paintings and abstract pictures defy any categorization other than as "abstractions". Often there is a hint at the reality beneath; in the abstract artwork, for example, called "Dance", the feeling of its circular motion recalls the painting by Matisse of the same name, but only as a hint, no more. That is what the artist intended as the piece evolved.

All paintings, really, are abstractions: just paint on paper or canvas, board, whatever. But we call them realistic if that representation gives us what we have all agreed to call a sky,  forest,  houses, etc. True abstraction has no references at all. Cardona-Hine's work almost always has some reference to nature or human beings, to something we all recognize in this world, though perhaps only as dream.