Finally, some real ink
On December 23rd at 6pm I'll start taking down "Walk the Walk," a collection of more than sixty mixed media drawings and paintings created over the eighteen months in 2006 and 2007. After a three month run at Plant Zero I am pleased to announce that the show was reviewed here.
If you happen to pick up a copy of Style Weekly this week you'll also notice that they graciously reproduced two other pieces and one of those if of my dear, departed friend Jackie Wall. A color reproduction of that painting can be seen here.
The art dialogue in Richmond evolves around "process" so I'll take the dialogue one step further and tell you all that have time to read the review (in this busiest of seasons!) that I refer to my technique as "staining" or a series of washes rather than "spilling." Spilling refers to "accidents" and I can tell you, there aren't that many accidents in what I do though I am always open to the "happy accident."
A watercolorist would understand this way of working and it is also something particular to working with acrylic or flashe or any water-based medium. It relys on transparency and a degree of control over the elements of water and gravity in relation to the surface one is washing or staining... but this is something I don't think anyone would want to read about so I'll leave it at that. If you are interested in seeing more of this work please visit my website! If you click on the picture you'll wind up with a slide show of the catalogue for WALK THE WALK and it includes a thoughtful essay by Howard Risatti. He saw the work outdoors originally, prior to the show and I know that changes context and how the work is perceived. It is something I'd like to explore further... come to think of it Anaba has fun with some of these ideas in relation to his own painting.
Blogger has introduced a new kind of scrolling slide show... whenever I have time I'll post the exhibitions sequence of images here using this new system. In the meantime I've posted a sequence of sunflower (tournesol)and portrait paintings on YOUtube and they can be seen below:
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4 Comments:
I can only wonder if Roberts-Pullen understands the idea of a "wash." Having spent several hours at the opening of "Walk the Walk", I somehow missed any spilled paint. I did see a number of paintings with washes, however.
To my thinking the use of this technique adds an element of the transcendental to Oliver's work. Certainly she is more than capable of dramatic realism, but these paintings are more than that.
To me they represent Oliver's ideas like faded memories and dreams. In our minds, time is the wash that obscures some of the details, that puts a patina on our recollections. These paintings are many things, but "spilled" paint is not among them.
Wow! your artwork it´s amazing. so mystic, oniric, and surrealims (sorry my english) i´m chilean illustrator, and my work is on black and white. If you have time, please visit my own site on...
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I wait you´re comments.
MD - Your observations are welcome and appreciated. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
IA - thanks for stopping by. I spent some time on your blog and your work is other worldly! I'll look forward to seeing more of what you do.
amie,
i didn't see any spilled paint either...
xo..
diana
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