Here is one of the 2 films that were on display at the Dennis Hart: Effects of the Constructed Landscape opening.  Keep checking back for the other film, I’ll post it soon!!!!

The final installation of the 4 part podcast series leading up to the show on Friday, Enjoy!

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The 3rd Podcast of Dennis Hart speaking about the work in his new one man show at the Foster Gallery, Enjoy!

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The second of four podcasts about the new show.   Enjoy!

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Our Friend and fellow creator Dennis Hart is scheduling to open a show at the Foster Gallery on June 24th. Look for much more media to come in preparation for this including Podcasts, Pictures and more! Check out Dennis’ profile page for more about him HERE. Check back soon!

I went over yesterday and watched Ms. Von Heyl work during my lunch break and found the early stages of her wall piece very interesting, she has a preliminary sketch and map of her intended work on many, many rolled up, blueprint type, drawings. She has, as expected for this size of work, striped the wall into sections and at the time of my viewing it, had a shaped orange base laid down, and was hatch-marking some outlines over it for what was sure to be middle layer pattern. The reception for the Wall Installation will be held on Friday, November 19, 5:30-8pm. There will be an artist talk on the piece on Thursday, May 19, 2011, 6pm.

Here is an Exceprt from the WAM website regarding the Artist and this event:

“For her project, von Heyl plans to pay homage to Ellsworth Kelly’s Orange White, a 1961 abstract canvas in the Museum’s collection that excels at the play between clarity of form, ambivalence between figure and ground, and resistance to interpretation. (Kelly’s Orange White will go on public view when Art from the mid-20th Century opens on February 17, 2011.) Von Heyl, who described her drive towards abstraction as the desire to invent something that has not yet been seen, often borrows gestures and techniques from painters preceding her then proceeds to bury them in a vigorous process of destruction and creation. Her paintings are characterized by a sense of conflict between defined and indeterminate forms, sometimes jarring use of color, and various strategies of paint application—all within a single work.
Adopting formal aspects of the Kelly and adapting her studio practice—an abstraction created by overload, blotting out, and superimposition—to mural scale and an architectural setting, the intrepid von Heyl plans an ambitious new project resulting in several kinds of pictorial experiences co-existing.”

For more, check out the WAM website: http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/wall_heyl.html

-Matt

So this is some new work that I’ve been making from the office series again.  I’ve been spending some time reworking my color palette and making some longer, deeper choices.  This is the beauty of working in a series like this, an ability to not be as concerned about the subject, and focus some effort on investigating other aspects that can totally refresh the work and its direction.  I will continue to post as this one comes along so you can see the changes made.  the above photo is from the first single session.