Doris Colbert Kennedy:  Visualizing the Cosmos Doris Colbert Kennedy's recent abstract paintings dichotomously place her in both the aggressive school of American Abstract Expressionism and in the self-reflective Color School of Washington, DC painters. Her dynamic and cosmic like compositions embody the vigorous push and pull of the one while exuding the mental serenity and self-reflection of the other.    With transparent layers of color she constructs and deconstructs compositions, maintaining vestiges of each as testaments to a journey.  Being rubbed and pushed into the warp and weft of canvas, the colors form veils and mists that are sometimes subtle and earthy, sometimes brilliant, contrasting and burning. We see evidence of a personal intuition that is very much related to a critical knowing as she gives creative birth to images that allude to all modes and theories of contemporary physics.    Her paintings address the fountainhead of the human condition - its cosmic beginnings and continuing questions of time, space and being.  They take viewers through numerous ideas of string theory, dark matter, Calabi-Yau formations, phase space and conifold transitions; yet, actual and specific representative identification is continually elusive. In instances when the viewer believes that he is viewing recognizable forms he is in the same moment confronted with the dissolution of that form.   In a recent exhibition of Colbert Kennedy's works at the James E. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, the curator, E. L. Briscoe indicated that: "At a certain point in the production the concerns of the artist have transcended identity, race, sex and beliefs and the artist has relieved herself of the burden of having to represent something universally recognizable as one thing or another in order to truly communicate or describe something otherworldly."   The increasing ambiguity of form pervades and drives the visual dynamics of her compositions. In one quantum moment Doris Colbert Kennedy paints consciously in the present, visually remembers the beginning of time and makes an elegant stroke with her brush toward the future.   Winston Kennedy, Professor Emeritus Howard University   List of work in The Cabinet Room at B. Smith's Union Station restaurant 50 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, DC 20002 Beginning right of door, continuing clockwise.   Strange Attractor  $3600 Emergent Complexities  $4000 Black Diamond  $3500 Strange Nu Symmetry  $4000 Stream of Order  $3500 Quantum Foam  $5000 Suspension Harmonics  $4000 Light Path   $4000 Conifold Transition in Calabi Yau Space  $5000 A Sense of Place  $4000 Manvantara Mantra  $3500 Light in Phase Space  $4000 Divergence  $4000 Earth’s   $4000