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 How does an artist convey the fluidity of a dancer? Moving bodies do not occupy a fixed place in space time, frozen like snapshots. Instead, their parts are neither there or not there as we sense their motion but never see it. That is the artistry and enthralling mystery of dance.
Matisse famously portrayed movement by simplifying and elasticizing his dancers. My minds-eye broke up the forms, with body parts venturing off into space while conflicting patterns keep the elements from coalescing into a single mass. I didn’t plan it that way. It just happened, stroke by stroke.
InkBodySkinPaint
These two dancers are impatiently biding their time until my show at Gallery 114 in March of next year: InkBodySkinPaint. They will share the gallery with my guest artist, photographer Owen Carey.  I have known and admired Owen for almost thirty years. Most of you have seen his theater shots, and he has recently been featured on Oregon Art Beat.  Somehow, Owen’s portraits always seem to peer into the soul of his models. For this show, Owen will exhibit studies of living art—tattooed models whose body decoration is inseparable from their identity. Who knows, maybe some of their parts will fly off into space too.
September:
Dueling Perspectives
Finally, Gallery 114’s current exhibit—Dueling Perspectives—features two painters who explore identity. Curtis Settino dives into surreal divisions in the world of the unsettled while Don Bailey juxtaposes the incongruous yet harmonious themes of Native American experience and art history.
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