Gary's Art Statement: I have been painting off and on for 25 years and my art has evolved. I have arranged my 'galleries' according to the aesthetic or philosophy or interest I had at the time.
Art Aimed at the Sublime: Kant's early essay on art proposes that we have two (related) aesthetic responses -- perception of the Beautiful, variety within order, and perception of the Sublime, variety without order or boundless. It's the different reactions we have to seeing a flower versus a mountainside of flowers. These paintings try to get at that feeling.
Linnear Art: After studying some of Degas' sketches, and thinking about his pursuit of 'the perfect line', I tried to create images reduced to straight lines. I formed a crowd composed of triangles, a carnival scene or intersecting lines, a sunny sky just blocks of color formed from lines. The technique produces a certain style -- something odd, sometimes humorous, a funny look.
Landscapes: Pretty paintings that emulate landscape photographs touch me not. I like imaginative landscapes, scenes that could never quite occur in nature but readily occur in the mind.
Narrative: Some of my paintings tell a story -- or at least invite the viewer to tell herself a story.
Ellen's Art Statement: My artistic development has followed an exploratory path, beginning with watercolors in grade school and progressing through various mediums such as rug hooking, needlepoint, and other crafts before returning to watercolor. Continued experimentation led me to abstract acrylic painting. My practice is rooted in the use of color and form to express moods, visions, and delight in the play of paint strokes and shapes. Some figures are abstracted from natural forms – a canyon, a bird, a cloud – and others spring purely from my imagination.
Art Aimed at the Sublime: Kant's early essay on art proposes that we have two (related) aesthetic responses -- perception of the Beautiful, variety within order, and perception of the Sublime, variety without order or boundless. It's the different reactions we have to seeing a flower versus a mountainside of flowers. These paintings try to get at that feeling.
Linnear Art: After studying some of Degas' sketches, and thinking about his pursuit of 'the perfect line', I tried to create images reduced to straight lines. I formed a crowd composed of triangles, a carnival scene or intersecting lines, a sunny sky just blocks of color formed from lines. The technique produces a certain style -- something odd, sometimes humorous, a funny look.
Landscapes: Pretty paintings that emulate landscape photographs touch me not. I like imaginative landscapes, scenes that could never quite occur in nature but readily occur in the mind.
Narrative: Some of my paintings tell a story -- or at least invite the viewer to tell herself a story.
Ellen's Art Statement: My artistic development has followed an exploratory path, beginning with watercolors in grade school and progressing through various mediums such as rug hooking, needlepoint, and other crafts before returning to watercolor. Continued experimentation led me to abstract acrylic painting. My practice is rooted in the use of color and form to express moods, visions, and delight in the play of paint strokes and shapes. Some figures are abstracted from natural forms – a canyon, a bird, a cloud – and others spring purely from my imagination.