Blockheads and Storied Volumes – May 7th to 11th 2025
Blockheads and Storied Volumes – Cubism 2.0.
at
Visual Space Gallery
3352 Dunbar Street
Vancouver BC
This solo exhibition will feature recent cube paintings, the latest candelabra (Guiding Lights) and a few select earlier works including ‘Hypnotica’.
Gallery hours: May 7, 4-7pm; May 8, 9 & 10. 12-8pm; May 11. 12-6pm.
‘Opening’ reception times
Thursday May 8th from 5 – 8 pm and
Saturday May 10th from 2 to 5 pm.
Do come! I will be in attendance for the entire five days, and If the Canucks are playing at any time we’ll have the game on at the gallery!
Blockheads and Storied Volumes – Cubism 2.0.
The cube paintings started In May of 2024.
The only constraint I set for myself was to work with 6-inch cubes. Instead of ‘thinking outside the box’, I would think of the box as both a multi-sided blank canvas and a blank void. This added dimension was intended to get me back to the root of creativity where I could revel in the things that drove me to pursue art in the first place. It did! I feel most content in the process of exploration, experimentation and delighting in engagement with line shape colour form and the illusion of space. With understanding the rules, and then having no ‘hard rules’, the process becomes play. And with the illusion of form and space painted on an actual form in space (cube) there is an added dimension. I could explore the sides, design forms to enhance depth, manipulate for distortion or have edges disappear. Shapes change and exaggerate as visual elements are placed together, and engaging challenges arise that ask me to resolve them, especially when going around corners adding surprise and pleasure to the creative process.
Photographs of the artwork for Blockheads and Storied Volumes will be posted in the paintings section soon!
Stay tuned or come to the show!
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If you would like a preview of the work please contact me to schedule a visit or FaceTime appt.
[email protected] or ph/text 778.886.1296
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