Toby Rosenbloom
Drive-By, Dream Center LA 2026
WORK IN PROGRESS… more coming soon.
I love this painting ‘Drive-By, Dream Center LA’. I have no idea what Rosenbloom intended, when I look at it, I have thoughts about it from a few different perspectives.
Color: The color hits you over the head. I’d love to see this in person some day. Rosenbloom is creating an atmosphere where it feels like we are approaching an early hour on the clock with the dark blues and greens that are obscuring most of the landscape. I like how the the headlights of the car are barely illuminating just a sliver of the tree on the left. At the same time the buildings are just booming in your face.
Composition: I’m not sure about the composition. By this I mean where things are on the canvas. I love the elements of this piece. All of them including the lack of stars in the city sky and the overlook of the city below on the right. I like the conversation in the car. I like the aforementioned tree that twists and turns on the left. What bothers me just a little is what I think of as being a lack of refinement. I could and might go into this in detail.
Concept: This is where I personally really start to appreciate this work. I’m reading in a lot of deep psychological exploration. When you start to look at a work of art, unconciously you start at a point and then your eye will wander around while your brain makes order of what you are seeing. After multiple repeated viewings, I think anyones eye will enter the picture through the big old Dream Center sign. I started to realize after repeated viewings that I was starting new internal narratives each time I saw that sign. The internal narratives informed how i viewed the rest of the picture. Over time the different narratives I told myself built up so that on my 10th view I was remembering earlier thoughts and creating new ones. (I need to write this better).
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