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Issue 15November 11, 2010
Abstract Expressionism: Bill
Komoski (1954 - )
What are the paintings of Bill Komoski
about? They are about looking. Asmap-like as they sometimes
appear,
there is a layering and complexity thatinvites and confounds
reconnaissance.
The paintings can be seen asorganized and chaotic at the
same
time. There can be a subtle
symmetrical structure that is not
immediately apparent. It sets up abalance, he says, and
undermines
it. Shadows are cast, but not by anelement in the painting. They
have an
independent life. Things are hidden inplain sight.
The paintings are about spacial
dislocation. Komiski submerges theviewer, showing us what rises
to the
surface, what lies beneath, and whathovers and trails in
between. There is
a feeling of fluidity, floating, flow, and
weightlessness; there are currents,crosscurrents and tides. The
light in
the paintings is silvery gray, as if itwas refracted from a
rippled surface of
water, or seen from below, yet with aneerie, unnatural
quality.
Komoski, like many abstract painters,has no preconception, no
plan before
he begins to work. His starting pointis a controlled accident: a
drip of
paint that he allows to stream along
the surface of the canvas, both guidingit and letting it find
its own route. He
refers to this procedure as the initialdrawing, which he then
responds to.
Forms are suggested as are space
and depth. He paints wet into wet,and so the painting has to
be
completed in a single session.
Once the painting has been started,
other aspects are slower, and he goesback and makes changes.
Although in
our reading of the paintings we maymake certain associations,
Komoski
never gives descriptive titles to his
works. Instead they are titles withtheir dates of
completion.
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The paintings show webs, nets,networks, arteries. What are
these
paintings about, and what do we seein them? If the paintings
are, as
Komoski has said, unsettled, thenmaybe they have something to do
with
the times we're living through.
Featured Artist: Alan Taylor
Jeffries (1958 - )
Although he's had a lifelong interest inart, he started to paint
in 2008. He's
self-taught. His favorite artists are
Willem DeKooning, Melville Price,
Nicolas de Stael, Michael Goldberg,Mary Abbott, Ralph Turturro,
Iain
Robertson, Robert Rauschenberg, &Julian Schnabel.
He was featured in a September 2009show the Emerging Artist
exhibition,
Artworks Around Town, in Wheeling,West Virginia.
He agrees with the critic who once said
that a painting does not have to be"about" anything other than
the
process of its own creation.
To Jeffries, all art is self-portraiture.
He quotes, "I rarely want to knowwhat's in the artist's mind.
Finding out
what an artist thinks about his art is
nowhere near as exciting as findingout what it means to you." -
DavidBowie
Some of his work is very reminiscentof de Kooning.
More work is featured at [link].
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Heritage II, October 2010
I was offered to participate in a showin New York for emerging
artists.
They found me on abstractart.com.Unfortunately, they wanted
money to
help pay for advertising and catalogprinting costs. I strongly
suspect that
the artists are paying the full cost(their amount was very high)
and I
also don't think that they market theart during the reception.
In photos,
cards with prices are not visible. Theystand to make $40,000 for
each
exhibit, which runs for a month. So, a
very profitable exercise, even for NewYork. I was
disappointed.
Poem of the Month:
Yes, you can experience a love story.A season in Hell
Rattle laundryPandora's Box
RetreatA thief of residencies
Wide awake fieldsFirst prize artist
Translated by deadlinesThe gathering region; memoir of
trust.
September 2007
[Written as a "collage poem" for aCreative Writing Class in
Asheville. We cut out words from amagazine while in class
and
combined them to make a poem. I didmine in 10 minutes and
then waited another 45 for everyoneelse to finish!]
Quote of the Month:
A sincere artist is not one who makesa faithful attempt to put
on to canvas
what is in front of him, but one whotries to create something
which is, in
itself, a living thing. - William Dobell
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