Thursday, November 24, 2011

Paintings and Video Fly-bys

There are two paintings by the same artist hanging side by side in Emery Community Arts Center. I hope to speak to the artist soon. Here images of them. The full image is a still picture. The close-ups to show the brushwork and working surface are stills from videos.

Determine These Confines.

Like Evolution Never Happened.

I found the best way to study the brushwork and composition with video "fly-bys" was to hold the cmaera at a slight angle to the painting surface. The close-ups on Like Evolution Never Happened are to show how the artist used hot-glue as a texturing medium to create a bas-relief of the primodial creatures swimming in the deeps.

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