"Timbre: Brian Fick" - teaser images

June 1 - 23, 2012

Opening reception: IDADA First Friday, June 1, 6-9 pm

Mid-show, mid-week reception: Wednesday, June 13, 6-9 pm

By appointment: 317-375-0876

"Frozen Time, Quiet Space" 

paintings by

George Meluch 

May 4 - 26, 2012

 

 

View work from the show here.

 

"This body of work is a non-literal, intuitive investigation into the themes of isolation, and the constructed ideas of the non-technological human experience. Drawing from and seeking to undermine the panoply of artistic renderings of our development as a unique species, these forms and formal choices toy with a balance of solemnity and extravagance, of contemporary tradition and historical innuendo. 

"The time is no time, and the meta narrative is shifting. The content playfully taunts both the future speculations of this special, current year and the ever evolving contemporary science dealing with the past. Tiny tensions pull at all the corners of conceptual and painterly edges and color's role is conflicted in the symbolic and the illusory fashion.

"It is a constructed dream, but it is not an idyllic space, or one based on longing, or on fear. Figure and character are forced into fluidity, disallowed solid identity for the opening of their theoretical purpose. This painted world is a silent world."


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George Meluch is an Indiana based artist, with a 2010 BFA in Painting from the John Herron Institute of Art. He previously studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he won the Fred Walker award for creative writing in 2005 and participated in a number of group shows. In 2010 and 2011 he attended the Purdue Graduate Fine Arts program.

He is obsessed with history and historical theory, dubiously studious of accepted paradigms and ingenuously loving of those which are disregarded. He does not believe in the concept of belief and is a huge fan of all religions and other interesting human practices.

"Frozen Time, Quiet Space" - paintings by George Meluch

Show runs May 4 - 26, 2012

"Night Driving"
 paintings by
 Anita Giddings

April 6 - April 28, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-9 pm 

"Many years ago, while on a trip with my sister, we became lost.  We were driving in an unfamiliar part of the country and the road was obscured with fog.  Even though it was three o¹clock in the morning and we were hundreds of miles from where we were going, I couldn’t help being fascinated with the scene in front of us.  The oncoming headlights of the other cars, the looming hills and trees and the glow of the pavement was a painting in motion.  This is the type of experience I find most inspiring. 

My work is based on the idea of the mysterious phenomena of the natural world.  I explore the juncture between the known and the unknown.  I feel that this borderland between the rational and the mysterious is what has driven the imagination of humankind for generations.  I investigate this connection in my work -  the landscape is my laboratory. 

The human concepts of time and geographic location fascinate me.  I think of our ancestors naming and organizing the world around them.  What could not be explained through observation became the seeds of myths and folklore.  The mysterious time of evening, of pale clouds in a night sky, of inky shadows and disorienting shapes, these are the scenes that I attempt to capture with my paintings.

The paintings are small scale but my intent is to suggest a much larger space.  I currently work in oil on panel using traditional painting methods.  After several years of working in sculpture and installation, I have returned to painting.  I paint for the love of seeing things. I find myself painting the same image over again with slight variations. I want these images in my work, my memory."

Anita has exhibited her work for many years, and has worked in sculpture and installation, in addition to painting. She received her BFA from Herron School of Art, and her MFA from Indiana State University. She currently is the Coordinator of Electives Arts and Senior Lecturer of Fine Art, at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI.