If things have been quiet on the this front, it is only because they are raucously abuzz elsewhere. Building frames, stretching canvas, painting, painting, painting. A few scenes that have been filling my days of late:
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New Painting: Oryx Skull
It seems like forever and a day since I last posted one of my paintings, so here is my latest. I was playing with elements of trompe l’oeil in this piece, whose subject is the skull of a scimitar-horned oryx (remember those?) hanging in the ranch house in Texas. Ah, Texas, how I miss your tacos and your sunshine.
I am also delighted to announce that this (yet untitled) piece has already sold, but that I am considering making prints available for sale, of this and other works. Good idea? Bad idea?
This will at least give me an excuse to have many of my pieces professionally scanned or photographed, which will be a welcome relief. Hopefully then I can stop cringing every time I see the havoc digital transfer has wrecked on the subtler colors. The highlights look especially garish here. Ugh.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Jeremy Geddes, one of my favorite contemporary painters, posted a new piece on his blog this week, and boy is it a doosy. According to Geddes, this incredibly dynamic work is the first of a new “loosely connected” series. The title, “A Perfect Vacuum” is shared by a book of short stories and essays by science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, which just so happens to be one of the books in the painting. It’s all in the details people. Speaking of details, visit his blog for more views and close-ups of the work. Prints of “A Perfect Vacuum” will be available shortly on Geddes’ website.
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Dreamtime
The first time I saw one of So Yoon Lym‘s paintings I thought I was looking at a photograph. And while photorealism isn’t an automatic qualifier for laudable art, So Yoon’s work offers so much more. One of her newest bodies of work is Dreamtime, a collection of hair and braid patterns viewed from an aerial perspective. Using acrylic on paper, So Yoon bases this series on photos she has taken of young people in her current homebase of Paterson, New Jersey.
From her website: “The interest in urban hairstyles is of particular interest since these hairstyles are unique to a particular social, cultural and ethnic experience that is not my own.”
The title, Dreamtime, references the precolonial Aboriginal Australian understanding of time and the creation of life as told through mythology. So Yoon Lym’s choice to depict her subjects from above is also derived from an … Continue reading
“Couplings” Art Opening
Hello my dears! I hope you all had a good weekend and (if you’re a football fan) a fun Super Sunday! We spent most of ours continuing the great house hunt, and I am happy to report that we put in an application on a very sweet little place, so fingers crossed…
I wanted to give you a glimpse of last weeks “Couplings” opening. First, here are a few photos from the installation.
My painting and two photographs by Rebecca Finley.
(Left to right) Rebecca Finley, Max Heller, Stuart Gibson, Jennifer Dyer (pedestal), Stuart Gibson, Valerie Metz (2 pieces), Hui-Ying Tsai, K.F. Kozorao (in window).
Photo credit: Gallery 110.
It was a lovely evening, with many of the featured artists and their families, the gallery’s represented artists and staff, and others present, munching the obligatory cheese and crackers and sipping on wine. The following night, during Pioneer Square’s First … Continue reading
