LIKE WYNN BULLOCK, with whom he has worked, Padula makes color abstractions with, perhaps, broken glass reflecting and refracting the patterns of colored lights. Like Bullock, he is imitating the obsolescent forms of Abstract Expressionism. Since Padula at one time studied painting, his prints are more successful pretend-paintings than Bullock’s, but one cannot help feeling that his concern is primarily the mysterious technique (“I’ll bet they won’t be able to figure out how I made these”) than the emotional impact. The prints are very pretty.
