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BACK TO Mid-Atlantic Artists • Guy Stevens

March 6 - April 30, 2006

LIISA SALOSAARI JASINSKI
Newberry, SC

Kielillä puhuen:
Viimeaikaisia sekatekniikka maalauksia

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Speaking in Tongues:
Recent Mixed Media Paintings

 

LIISA SALOSAARI JASINSKI Kielillä puhuen: Viimeaikaisia sekatekniikka maalauksia Spartanburg Taidemuseo Maaliskuun 6. - Huhtikuun 30. 2006 TAITEILIJAN LAUSUNTO Nämä sekatekniikka maalaukset-—suuurimmksi osaksi keskikokoisia, monet paneeleilla—on maalattu viimeisen kolmen vuoden aikana. Niissä on melkein piirustuksenomainen sävy. Useissa on kollaasia ja pintamuutoksia, jotka on tehty akryylimeediumeilla. Niiden värivalinnat ja terävät ykstyiskohdat ovat myos laadultaan hillitympiä. Olen käyttänyt siellä täällä figuratiivisia elementteja, vaikkakin tyylini on pääasiassa abstraktia. Useat teemat pilkahtelevat esiin tassä maalausryhmässä: “Kielillä puhuen”—kahden kielen/ Yhdysvallat versus Eurooppa-kokemus, “Matkakumppanit”—ihmisen elämän ja kohtalon arvoitus, aina mielessäni, ja ennen kaikkea monitahoisuuden ja avointen mahdollisuuksien teema. Toivon etta näiden maalausten harkittu monitarkoituksellisuus rohkaisee katsojaa siirtymään kuvan edessä olevaan symboolisen tilaan ja täyttamään sen oman mielensä sisällöllä ja omilla tulkinnoillaan. Me kohtaamme siinä tilassa.

LIISA SALOSAARI JASINSKI Speaking in Tongues: Recent Mixed Media Paintings Spartanburg Museum of Art March 6 - April 30, 2006 ARTIST’S STATEMENT These mixed-media paintings—mostly medium-sized, many on panels,—have been painted during the past three years. There is almost a drawing-like quality to them. Several have collage and surface variations created with acrylic mediums. There is also a more muted quality in color choices, and a subtler way with sharp details. I have used occasional figurative elements, although the main language is abstract. There are several themes that weave in and out of this body of work: “Speaking in Tongues”—the personal bilingual/US vs. Europe experience, “Fellow Travelers”—the enigma of human life and destiny, always present in my mind, and above all, the theme of complexity and open-endedness. I hope that the deliberate ambiguity in these paintings will invite the viewer to step into the figurative space in front of the images and fill it with their own projections and interpretations. It is the space where we meet.

BACK TO Mid-Atlantic Artists • Liisa Jasinski

March 13 - May 7, 2006

GUY STEVENS
Greenville, SC

The Joy of Paint

 

“The paintings of Guy Stevens offer us a travelogue of splendid fantasies and dreamlike narratives, and while his subject matter varies from Munich to Milano, his essential style is consistent. Employing flamboyant colors, his flat lyrical shapes suggest qualities of both primitive and impressionistic art. He often adopts an elevated viewpoint giving his work a tilt in perspective that channels an extraordinary energy and movement. He draws us into the movement with an explosion of color, which culminates in a celebration of life.” — Kris Kline, Director Gallery — Stevens began his professional career in 1970 after graduating from Furman University with a major in art. His paintings are held in public and private collections worldwide. His painting tours span the globe. Museum Exhibits include Greenville County Museum, Spartanburg County Museum, Pickens Museum, Clemson Museum and Furman University. My true education and self-discovery began after I graduated from Furman with a degree in the visual arts in 1970. Thirty six years later I have painted all over the world and sold paintings in forty countries. During this same time frame, I have worked in eight studios/ galleries in downtown Greenville and worked for months at a time in studios in Paris, New York, Bermuda, Munich, Montreal and San Francisco. The interplay of light and texture is a prominent influence on the choice of subject and technique. I think of myself as an expressionist in the tradition of Chagall, Matisse and Van Gogh. I am an intuitive, expressive colorist. I strive to give the viewer a sense of uplifting inner connection to my images.”