David Carlson: Paradigms of Structure and Change - Black and White Version
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Working with the unique qualities of painting, drawing, and video, David Carlson engages the poetics of geometry and design through the collision of gestural lines, rounded forms, and layered imagery. Spanning over several years, the bodies of work featured in Paradigms of Structure and Change are in conversation with one another as investigations into the importance of experience and reflection within the process of intuitive creation. Khadija Adell, Curator
Paradigms of Structure and Change: David Carlson
March 11 – April 23, 2017
Working with the unique qualities of painting, drawing, and video, David Carlson engages the poetics of geometry and design through the collision of gestural lines, rounded forms, and layered imagery. Spanning over several years, the bodies of work featured in Paradigms of Structure and Change are in conversation with one another as investigations into the importance of experience and reflection within the process of intuitive creation. Khadija Adell, Curator
Other Side of Empty, 2016, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 72″
Paradigms of Structure and Change: David Carlson
March 11 – April 23, 2017
Working with the unique qualities of painting, drawing, and video, David Carlson engages the poetics of geometry and design through the collision of gestural lines, rounded forms, and layered imagery. Spanning over several years, the bodies of work featured in Paradigms of Structure and Change are in conversation with one another as investigations into the importance of experience and reflection within the process of intuitive creation. Khadija Adell, Curator
Diving Board, 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"
Shake a Snake, 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"
The Intangibles , 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"
Laughing, Uncertain, Tickle, 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40" x 40"
Magician's Forest, 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40" x 40", 2015
Other Side of Empty, 2016, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72"
Motionless Wind , 2016, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72"
Flying, Baby, Twister, 2011, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 60"
Fisherman, 2010, Oil and acrylic on wood, 28" x 25"
Heaven Ladder, 2010, Oil and acrylic on wood, 37.5" x 30"
Bow and Target, 2010, Oil and acrylic on wood, 28" x 24.5"
Tap on the Head, 2010, Oil and acrylic on wood, 30" x 30"
Quit Looking at Me, 2010, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 60", 2010
B & W Drawing #1, 1997, Chinese, Ink and acrylic on paper , 22"x19" (framed) ; 17"x14" (unframed)
B & W Drawing #2, 1997, Chinese, Ink and acrylic on paper , 22"x19" (framed) ; 17"x14" (unframed)
B & W Drawing #3, 1997, Chinese, Ink and acrylic on paper , 22"x19" (framed) ; 17"x14" (unframed)
video
Flow, 2014
High Definition Video
3 min. 32 sec.
Cyrcle, 2014
High Definition Video
3 min. 43 sec.
Confluence, 2014
High Definition Video
4 min. 03 sec.
Water in the Sky, 2014
High Definition Video
14 min. 03 sec.
One year, one month, one week, one day, one hour, one minute.
Through the act of abstract painting I merge time and energy into compositions that reflect unknown circumstance. This is important. I begin with a simple group of thoughts or perimeters that initiate the overall concept. (platform.) Totemic force, unidentified object, nature, music, poetry, diverse cultural experiences through travel define the process. Mine is not to dissect and explain but to experience and reflect.
Each painting has it’s own duration and this perception is automatically built into it through the process of exploration. This is something I have been working and struggling with for many years.
In my studio I ask myself, “What is the nature of reality?” This is my constant thought while I paint. The tension between opposing paradigms of structure and change continually challenge me to look for different ways to understand this question. By using abstraction, my paintings have an undertone of geometry, I use the word poetically. The aesthetic includes a painterly approach, precision handling and an underlying sense of design through collision, tension and opposition.
On the surface, there are recognizable shapes, mostly circles, but also rounded forms and lines that create movement and structure in the space. The physical nature of circles become fixed in space between the more gestural lines and layers that create movement and a sense of time. The painting’s layered surface include heavy texture, scraped areas, fresh paint and milky veils, which allude to the formation or destruction of random sequence. Without having specific objects or trappings of identifiable ‘real’ images, the paintings cross over perceptible boundaries locked to a specific meaning. This allows me to look directly at diverse ideas in an intuitive manner. The act of painting becomes the experience or ‘reality’ for the basis of the work. By combining abstract painting with concepts rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy I have been constructing contemporary works that directly express the ever-changing quality of experience, time, and place. Zen
Artists’ Talk: Myrtis Bedolla and Sharon Burton (juror) moderate as artists share their prospective about the exhibition. Artist participated in a talk moderated by Myrtis Bedolla (main gallery) where they spoke about their creative muse. Sharon Burton (rear gallery) engages the artist on their use of materials.
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Emergence 2014 (Main Gallery) Session 1
Emergence 2014 (Main Gallery) Session 2
Emergence 2014 (Rear Gallery) Session 1
Emergence 2014 - Opening Reception Remarks
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Artists Participating in the Talk: Patrick Burns, Gloria Askin, Ronald Beverly, Nina Buxembaum, David Carlson, Wesley Clark, Susanne Coley, Alyscia Cunningham, Jessica Damen, Maria-Theresa Fernandes, Ricardo Garcia, Shante Gates, Susan Goldman, LaToya Hobbs, Ronald Jackson, Benjamin Jancewicz, Jeffrey Kent, Kung Chee Keong, Florence A. McEwin, Bart O’Reilly, Arvie Smith, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Casey Snyder, Antar Spearmon, Shahrzad Taavoni, Terry Tapp, Maxine Taylor, Stanley Wenocur, Sea Yoon and Helen Zughaib
In challenging the notion of the feminine archetype, artists embrace and reach beyond the boundaries of the female form to express the essence of a woman, figuratively, conceptually and metaphorically. Participating artists: Sondra Arkin, David Carlson, Oletha Devane, Phylicia Ghee, Michael Gross, Nora Howell, Edwin Remsburg, Rachel Rotenberg, and Mary Walker. Myrtis Bedolla, curator, Jessica Stafford-Davis, co-curator
In challenging the notion of the feminine archetype, artists embrace and reach beyond the boundaries of the female form to express the essence of a woman, figuratively, conceptually and metaphorically.
As Color, alluring imagery stretches the imagination and explores a woman’s sexual and intellectual power through aggressive gestures and symbolic references to the feminine life-giving force. As Light, provocative photographs portray a woman’s physical strength and ubiquitous presence in nature. As Form, moving two and three dimensional objects, emblematic of the ethereal qualities of a woman, reveal the complexities, convictions and intuitiveness of the feminine expressed as the divine; a ritualistic-based video serves as testimony to one woman’s personal journey of renewal, and others speak to healing, identity, memory and transformation in tableaus that embody a woman’s unbridled spirit.
Artwork
Sondra Arkin
Permutations Toward Infinity Series
Wax/Shellac: dibond
No: 47
Year: 2012
16” x 16”
Sondra Arkin
Permutations Toward Infinity Series
Wax/Shellac: dibond
No: 68
Year: 2012
16” x 16”
Sondra Arkin
Permutations Toward Infinity Series
Wax/Shellac: dibond
No: 76
Year: 2012
16” x 16”
Sondra Arkin
Permutations Toward Infinity Series
Wax/Shellac: dibond
No: 73
Year: 2012
16” x 16”
Sigrid Vollerthun
Hibiscus Candle
Photograph
Year: 2010
Framed: 26 ½ x 20”
Mary Walker
Eternal Life
Acrylic and canvas on wood panel
Year: 2010
12” x 12” x 4 ½”
Participating artists: Sondra Arkin, Maya Freelon Asante, David Carlson, Oletha Devane, Phylicia Ghee, Michael Gross, Nora Howell, Ada Pinkston, Edwin Remsburg, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Rachel Rotenberg, Amy Sherald, Sigrid Vollerthun and Mary Walker. Along with Sondheim Semi-finalists: A. Moon and Adejoke Tugbiyele
Artscape Gallery Network Exhibit curated by Myrtis Bedolla and co-curator Jessica Stafford-Davis
The Artscape Gallery Network connects two dozen Baltimore galleries to a wider audience through a promotional campaign sponsored by M&T Bank and provides art lovers with an extended opportunity to enjoy Baltimore’s talented artists before, during and after the festival weekend. The Artscape Gallery Network exhibitions highlight 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize applicants, along with artists working throughout the region.
Artists’ Talk: Artists assert their creative voices through textured canvases rich with vibrant hues, and sculptures which free the inherent beauty of the natural stone. Drawing from their intuitions and imaginations, the artists form rhythmic patterns employing light and color to explore social issues, and the metaphysical and spiritual realm.
Featured Artists: David Carlson, Calvin Coleman, Elsa Gebreyesus, Michael Gross, M. Scott Johnson and Jeffrey Kent.
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Abstraction Artist Talk
Abstraction: The Syncopation of Light, Color and Form
Abstraction: The Syncopation of Light, Color and Form artists assert their creative voices through textured canvases rich with vibrant hues, and sculptures which free the inherent beauty of the natural stone. Drawing from their intuitions and imaginations, the artists form rhythmic patterns employing light and color to explore social issues, and the metaphysical and spiritual realm.
Featured Artists: David Carlson, Calvin Coleman, Elsa Gebreyesus, Michael Gross, M. Scott Johnson and Jeffrey Kent.
Artist
Diapotheque Series, 2010 by Edwin Remsburg
