Floating Men & Pale Faces
Featuring 30 full-color plates documenting
Palomaki's artistic journey from 1985 to
2002 with essays from Marcus Reichert
and D. A. Blyler.
One might be tempted before examining Kurt Palomaki’s painting in detail to
ascribe his peculiar inventiveness to what the unenlightened critic would categorize
as the genius of the outsider artist, meaning in essence that such abandoned
creativity is the product of the life-force itself, of the universal unconscious. This
might have been said of Georges Rouault or Henri Rousseau as well. A few
extraordinary painters are recognized not only for the compelling immediacy of their
work, but more importantly for the conviction inherent in each work that painting is
an act of revelation. Kurt Palomaki has found himself in that place.

Marcus Reichert, 2001
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