“dragon,” 28.5 x 14, digital images on canvas, raw beeswax, re-purposed wood
This weekend (October 12-13, 2013) I am hosting an open studio here at Bourbon, Dogs and Art where all you noble folk are invited to drop by and enjoy a fall day in the woods wandering around looking at the Woodland Banners installation, hanging out in the yurt studio/gallery where you can enjoy indoor art of the kind that would look great on your walls at home and visit the Bourbon, Dogs and Art Outlet Store to get a head start on the masses interested in the new chicken and eggs throw pillows and indoor/outdoor placemats as the gift-giving season approaches. A nice rain early in the week will clear any dust and the forecast is perfect for doing all of the above.
“three different eggs,” 28 x 12, digital images on canvas, raw beeswax, re-purposed wood
I will be open from 10-5 on Saturday and 12-5 on Sunday and will share the weekend with 48 other artists as part of the Alamance Studio Tour.
“Leaves after Oleszko,” 48 x 66, part of Woodland Banners installation (click to enbiggen)
“Leaves after van Gogh,” 48 x 66, part of Woodland Banners installation (click to enbiggen)
For people who want to know more about my work here’s an artist statement:
By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, I investigate the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
My conceptual artworks establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, I want to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
I would like thank Jasper Rigole who has created the internet’s absolute best artist statement generator and who deserves significant credit for the previous profundity.
“a dozen eggs,” 18 x 31, digital image on canvas, raw beeswax, re-purposed wood
