Heres a painting I’ve been working on, on the side of my “squares” project. This one is a quasi-tribute to Marla Olmstead, the famous (or infamous?) painter born in 2000. Its two canvases stretched and then connected, the white space at the bottom-right is actually nothing.
“The Northern Lights Will Never Reach Kentucky”
I find the Marla Olmstead case quite extraordinary. A child’s innocent creation, made into a real something by the coaching and adjustments of her father – both father and daughter, together, the perfect portrait of an artist. Innocence and Experience, working together, butting heads, and in the end, creating something… whether or not that thing is good or bad, interesting or passe… I think such a genuine example of artistic creativity is beautiful, and seeing the output of such a process… whew. yes.
sorry my posts are few and far between. I do have to paint these things – that takes a while. And then I don’t own a digital camera so… that makes things harder. But thanks to Daniel Shea, he took all the squared painting shots, the image above, and hes also working on my senior thesis paintings as we speak, thanks buddy, I owe you a beer or four… no headbutts this time, f’real.
oh that reminds me, I’m about to update the square painting post, so look for a newish painting in there.
Chris
get your photographer’s name right! it’s shea! shea!
Comment by nat — December 8, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
ahW SHEA wosea sae
Comment by chrisowen — December 9, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
Very Cool Art!! The one on the right is hypnotizing. I found your page doing more discovery on Marla. I just watched her documentary.
“A child’s innocent creation, made into a real something by the coaching and adjustments of her father – both father and daughter, together, the perfect portrait of an artist. Innocence and Experience, working together, butting heads, and in the end, creating something… whether or not that thing is good or bad, interesting or passe… I think such a genuine example of artistic creativity is beautiful, and seeing the output of such a process… whew. yes.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself! Nice to know there is someone else who understands the true beauty of their creation amidst the negative reflection imprinted by the media. I do believe you captured that in your tribute as well.
Comment by Yvonne — June 8, 2009 @ 8:55 pm