Winters, Snow in June at GrayDuck Gallery

by Owen Bay
theowenbay@gmail.com

Take the journey to GrayDuck gallery this June.  You will enjoy the Winters, Snow show. WintersSnow SnowWinters

These two artist are skilled.  The work gives back to the viewer.  You can feel that each artist enjoys the process of creating each piece.  Enjoy the many visual stories the pieces portray.  Spend the time to examine the visual control each piece conveys.  The work is not an insult to your brain like where many MFA graduates  fall.  So see the show.  One of these artist has three names so you better pay attention.

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below is from GrayDuck Gallery
This exhibition combines narrative oil paintings by Pat Snow with mixed media constructions by Matthew John Winters to examine the process of revisiting and reworking captured images. Whereas Pat Snow is exploring the effects of translating images into different mediums, the work by Matthew John Winters is about the voyage from image to final product.

Pat Snow
Pat Snow's most recent work continues his practice of story telling through narrative portraits, but from an entirely new perspective. By interpreting his previous watercolor works in larger oil paintings, he attempts to capture the immediacy and light effects of a watercolor and translate that into the lush vernacular of oils. He gathers the raw materials for his art from the personal, popular media, and found photographs. Through his interpretation, and then reinterpretation of these images, Pat investigates the boundary between high and low art.





Matthew John Winters
My work seeks to make a connection between process and journey. All of the elements that I choose to work with, whether it be pen and paper, wood and paint, or light and digital image, have all undergone a change in state. These things go through a strange magic as they are cast aside or incorporated into an artwork. Out of the confusion and surrender an idea will turn to stone and materialize. When I find an image or material and I can't get it out of my head I will pull together multiple elements for a showdown that takes me across a tightrope into the soul desert. When these ideas coalesce perfectly I achieve a moment in paradise, Shangri-la, Eldorado. This voyage allows me to allow these elements to live and evolve, across time and space, to find their true potential. Don't bring me down.



by Owen Bay
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TRUE STORY

Paul Beck, Allen Brewer & Pat Snow
opening reception: friday, january 13, 7-9pm
exhibition dates: january 13 - february 19, 2012

True Story explores the purity of perception, the accuracy of memory, and the truth of desires. This exhibition features paintings from Paul Beck and Allen Brewer and watercolor mixed media works from Pat Snow.

Paul Beck
Paul Beck currently lives in Austin, Texas. He wears many hats including visual artist, filmmaker and animator. As an animator, Beck worked on the feature films Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. He has also written, directed and animated music videos for David Byrne, The Black Eyed Peas and Radiohead. His visual art has been exhibited at AMOA’s 22 to Watch and New American Talent at Arthouse.

“I want my work to provoke thoughts first for me, and then for the viewer. I make images for me. That is the power I give myself as a human being. I truly appreciate the viewer’s response to the work. I consider art-making a true act of freedom.”

Allen Brewer
My recent leanings as an artist have been that of truth and purity of perception. This investigation of form, verity, and accuracy has made me more aware of infinitesimal structures that are crucial to thingness.

For the past few years I have been making drawings using typewriter carbon and found photography, transcribing exacting details from the photo (via carbon) onto a substrate. The result is a “ghost”, devoid of any human embellishment or direct mark making. This process has caused me to draw and paint “blindly”, or refusing to look at the substrate while I work. Instead, my focus pinpoints every detail and form that makes the subject the subject. By eliminating my own perception of the thing, I am getting closer to its truth.

Pat Snow
Pat Snow came to his art practice after studying and working alongside Robert Colescott and Reverend Howard Finster where he was introduced to the use of humor and narrative in his art. Snow has focused on drawing as a medium to express his concerns and desires. He uses the cliché and the vernacular of the storyteller to further his art practice by continuously rearranging the visuals and stories he encounters to critique and explore narrative. He gathers the raw materials for his art from the personal, popular media, bad jokes and art history. He then reconditions them through his own thoughts and feelings. He lets his narrative images flow, allowing one image to slip to another, creating possibilities and a rich, open-ended story. Pat Snow’s artistic approach questions how one remembers and constructs a personal history and eventually tests how reliable and trustworthy ones memories are.