John Beardman "The Many - Cornered Eye"
M55 Art
This event has ended.
Varies from light-shot, sea strewn landscapes to ab-ex to phantasmagorical figures…all things seen, where all the best is seen, out of the corner of ones eye.
I worked all summer in an inclusive frenzy of gardening, building, recycling, painting. It was a grounded environment that had an edge of wildness to it. I worked, as usual in isolation. All that is, however, but the obverse of the “coin” of my art. In this exhibition I wish to present the reverse by using the internet. To now put it all in the “clouds” I will extend the showcase by presenting individual “exhibitions” on my website. Further, at least one of these displays will be auctioned off on ebay.
The areas are:
Process painting: my primary mode, based on abstract expressionist processes of discovery and the energy of the present.
Silhouette cloud readings—paintings that are open to many interpretations. The titles are but my suggestions.
Seascapes: I see the sea most every day I paint. It has entered my work. Its form-shifting energy relates to my approach to painting.
Tile paintings: Small works done on wood tile scraps. An attempt to see the preciousness in the rejected.
Persistence of loss: fragments of paper paintings destroyed by a boiler malfunction while in storage.
Figurative. Sketch work from the nude.
Sculpture, from conversing tea pots to shards of ceramic on tree stumps.
John Beardman November 2010
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Schedule
from December 16, 2010 to January 16, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-16 from 14:00 to 16:00