Paintings by MIKE SOLOMAN

EXHIBITION DATES
November 13 – December 5, 2015

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 13
6:00‑9:00PM

PREVIEW & PRE-SALE
November 10

ARTIST STATEMENT

The idea for this body of work presented itself to me when i was working on a piece called  “Avian Deities.” The title seemed much bigger than the actual painting and I felt I could do several more pieces with the very same title, so i decided to use the idea for the entire selection.

Of course there wasn’t enough time to cover the entire spectrum of all things flying, so I chose these images to represent the divinity of living things we see everyday, and some we don’t.

In dedicating this year to observing nature and being very present in my day to day interactions with our living surroundings, I was amazed at the experiences I had just by intending to participate.

Some images are showing purely the magnificence and beauty of creatures as we see them. And others are my interpretation of how they may view our world as an energetic field of existence.

Paintings by REUBEN KAMBEITZ

EXHIBITION DATES
November 13 – December 5, 2015

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 13
6:00‑9:00PM

PREVIEW & PRE-SALE
November 10

ARTIST STATEMENT

Home  |hōm|

noun

1    relating to the place where one lives.

• a place where something flourishes, is most typically found in, or from which it originates.
• a place where an object is kept.

I have found that in my adult life my expectations of what a home should be are morphing, shifting, being influenced by outside sources. The pace of our lives, the media, advertising and our culture are so rapid now, the material expectations communicated to me daily are influencing what I consider to be a real home. These sources have tarnished my previous view. For me the idea of a home consisted of a simple combination between body, building, community, country and planet. My comfort with these ideas has been affected by a bombardment of information constantly changing my perception, weighing on my daily life.

The concept of this exhibition began as one word, home. I approached the series using the most raw, un-edited, subconscious vision as possible to explore this word more in depth. After seeing a trend in the symbols I was using repeatedly, a visual narrative was formed. The regularly displayed icons like the house, the tent, the waterfall, all contribute to an overall mood in the paintings. The tent icon symbolizes a more free, nomadic and simple life juxtaposed against the domestic house, which represents a more standard expectation of how a home should be. Waterfalls pour out of the windows and doors cleansing the houses of their clutter. Although these symbols are present, I’m always interested in contrasting storytelling with an overall dream-like feeling to leave room for interpretation for the viewer. These works are made in an effort to find some kind of resolution of what home means to me while providing an opportunity for the viewer to do the same.