Join us First Thursday November 3rd from 5-8pm at the Fayetteville Underground for another exciting month of all new exhibitions!
Luciano Trigo's paintings will be featured in the Revolver. In the Vault, Dana Idlet will present her latest work since her experience on Flores Island in the Azores.
The work of Chad Sims will be on display in the Hive gallery. The E Street Gallery will feature functional stoneware by Gailen Hudson.
Luciano Trigos
Progressive Hemofiction
Revolver Gallery
The
eye stops in front of the Hemofiction painting. Observes shapes,
colors, and structure, it self mesmerized. Desires to comprehend,
looking back from a previous time, worn out. Attempts to enter lateral
invented reality through a known door, but uses the incorrect key.
Attentive eye, but conditioned. Curious eye. Was it going to speak
proudly of its knowledge? What do I see? – asks the eye in continuous excitement. Hemofictive
shapes that escape like smarmy fishes. Luciano Trigos's pictorial sense
refuses to respond positively to custom. I am eye, should be able to
see- the observer says with a certain rancorous air in his usual gaze.
The eye that claims or wishes to admire the unwanted requires
tutelage. The disciple eye submits itself to surprising design and,
does it look again? No, in reality it touches, it creates visual hands
that reach out to caress the canvas and wooden frames. The eye,
reeducated, gropes hemofictive forms. Colors and perspectives come to it
in an open manner, vibrating. Wanting to retrocede, the eye wishes to
perceive the pictorial dimension in an instant, but the painting's
reality divides, it sets diversity of centers at the sight, it seems the
painting does not desire to be a painting, and in contact with the
touching eye it becomes restless, aggressive, as if it were being
watched through a microscope. What I see transforms to pure beauty. The
eye insists, inserts, accomplishes at last to detach an apparent
totality, but discovers itself walking in an aesthetic surface right
away, it is a wayfarer that steps, barefoot, in fragments of another
reality attached to the first. Then, annoyed, decides to focus again.
Luciano Trigos does not recreate images, he produces Dynamic
Abstract Chromatics. The artist sets off in observing, where personal
creativity is the center. He sets the eye in first place and completes
what could be spaces full of aesthetic cells that reproduce in unusual
senses.
The eye roams with its own unrefined resources: shape,
movement, color. The cosmos is by no means, the way Luciano Trigos
paints it, it is worse- the artist's aesthetics tries to make up for
God's faults or in some way, adhere to nature's constant birth giving.
Luciano Trigos's paintings are product of lateral, germane vision.
Plastic cells are born, they grow and reproduce inside original,
abstract form and at the same time, follow a kind of autonomous
development. These spurious Hemofictous beings are displayed towards
objectivization, they wish to be touched, they desire to enter as fact
to the three dimensional world and offer concrete possibilities to the
receptor.
Dana Idlet
Gravity
Vault Gallery
This work comes from the growth and experiences I had on
Flores island in the Azores. After coming across a photograph of a place
I had never seen, I followed my intuition and spent the last six months
in the middle of the Atlantic. I shared a tiny village with 200 other
people between waterfall striped mountains and a rugged coastline shaped
by lava flow, always aware of the sea and its shifting horizon. The
people I spent my time with there are now my brothers and sisters.
There is a simplicity to the pieces I have produced, but they
come from a very deep and honest place. The island's gentle pace, lack
of material clutter and some indefinable quality of lightness gave birth
to these images. On the island I had an overwhelming feeling of
heaviness and being grounded. I had lived with my head in the clouds,
floating around, fighting to touch down. In this otherworldly place rich
with contradictions I found my gravity.
Gailen Hudson
Tea Time
Tea Time
The
art of pottery has been the transformation of the raw clay into the
vessel form serving the daily utilitarian needs of the people. It has
always been a three dimensional surface of expression and decoration in
the living space. The tea pot is the refinement of the vessel as a
server of refreshment noted as a time of relaxation and reflection - a
rest from the day's labors - either as a private moment or as a social
gathering. The tea pot should be pleasing to observe, to hold in the
hands, and to use. It is an enclosed space for containment, it creates
a defined volume within the living space of the home, and it must have
the attributes to efficiently serve its contents as desired. As I
return to making functional pottery in stoneware, I am again searching
the perimeters of design of the pleasing and functional vessel.
Chad Sims
Chad Sims graduated with a degree in Art from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he majored in Graphic Design. He also studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His works have been displayed in various galleries including the Jules Gallery in Fayetteville, AR; DDP Gallery in Fayetteville, AR; Gallery 26 in Little Rock, AR; and have been shown publicly in conjunction with Art Amiss, a Fayetteville-based collective for emerging artists.
This collection of works ranges from earlier, more
detailed, meticulous and deliberate watercolor and pencil pictures, to
more recent work in red and white earthenware clay. Due in part to the
nature of the medium, the clay tiles took on a more urgent and basic
quality (the lines for example being drawn more gesturally, and the
compositions made simpler). Clay provided an opportunity to explore and
stylize more elemental forms and figures, which I hope might one day
populate paintings like the earlier more elaborately composed ones.
Working with glazes and underglazes, which can't as readily be mixed and
blended with one another the way watercolors can, forced me to look at
color in a new way; to compose in flat blocks of color and to rely less
on blending and shading and modeling of forms.
Fayetteville Underground : 4 Art Galleries : Working Artist Studios
One East Center Street : Fayetteville, AR
Fayetteville Underground Gallery Hours: W-F 12-7pm and Saturday 10-5
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