Here's a glimpse of the current Greg Brown tribute show, which will run through September 15. This show is a prequel to future presentations, which will focus more definitively on his various projects. Join us for a reception on Friday, September 7, 6-9 pm, or on Saturdays 12-4 pm.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Craft Plaques - Teasers
Carla Knopp will use Dewclaw as a studio for July & August, and will open on First Fridays 6 - 9 pm, Saturdays, 12 -4 pm, and by appointment.
*Update: 8-2-12 The craft studio lasted through opening night and half-way through Saturday. Then I did a total take-down amidst a near melt-down. I'd been struggling and waffling about this work, and finally made the decision to excise it from my oeuvre. It could come back, but I feel good about recommitting to my core aesthetic directions, which involve exploration in the magical two-dimensional realm. This field and path of thought is meandering enough to yield infinite discoveries. This 3-d direction is simply too distracting, and felt like it stymied more deeply engaged discoveries.
*Update: 8-2-12 The craft studio lasted through opening night and half-way through Saturday. Then I did a total take-down amidst a near melt-down. I'd been struggling and waffling about this work, and finally made the decision to excise it from my oeuvre. It could come back, but I feel good about recommitting to my core aesthetic directions, which involve exploration in the magical two-dimensional realm. This field and path of thought is meandering enough to yield infinite discoveries. This 3-d direction is simply too distracting, and felt like it stymied more deeply engaged discoveries.
Dewclaw is pleased to present "Timbre: Brian Fick", a selection of
paintings from the past 10 years. This exhibition includes a large group
of previously undisplayed work. Show opens with a reception on IDADA
First Friday, June 1, 6 - 9pm. (A second reception will be held Wednesday, June 13, 6-9 pm).
Brian explores quirks of concept and imagery, often by combining
unlikely sensibilities. He creates landscapes with gestural abandon, to
which he may add rigid historic ornamentation, or impossibly wobbled
structures. Goofball twit meets esoteric wit, and campy metaphors harbor
more serious undertones. Brian roams beyond normal expectations.
Brian has formatted these paintings for modular display. They are to hang as an installation of interchangeable paintings, forming single gridded conglomerations. Each panel is framed in mock-traditionl motif, with playfully painted arabesque decoration and a wood biscuit "title plate". This uniformity in arrangement is a perfect foil to the exuberant explorations with each painting.
The works are also united by a more subtle commonality. A characteristic
tone or timbre runs throughout one's work. This exhibition seeks to
underscore that which defines our individual consciousness. Brian offers
quite varied expressions within his innovative methods of painting.
This series of work also reveal the nature of an individual psyche, as
it moves through time, space, and experience.
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Brian is an artist of longstanding local reputation in Indianapolis, having produced and exhibited paintings continuously from 1985 to present. His work is in the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Public Library, Eli Lilly & Co, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He received a BFA from Herron School of Art & Design in 1985, was a founding member of 431 Gallery and served as its president in 1988. He was project coordinator for "Herron Goes Public", which featured 7 floors of installations at the Goodman Quad in 1985. He co-owns Acanthus Arts, an architectural painting and historical restoration company, which has completed restoration projects on The Library of Congress, the United States Capitol, the Birch Bayh Federal Courthouse, and various other buildings across the U.S. and abroad.
Brian is an artist of longstanding local reputation in Indianapolis, having produced and exhibited paintings continuously from 1985 to present. His work is in the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Public Library, Eli Lilly & Co, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He received a BFA from Herron School of Art & Design in 1985, was a founding member of 431 Gallery and served as its president in 1988. He was project coordinator for "Herron Goes Public", which featured 7 floors of installations at the Goodman Quad in 1985. He co-owns Acanthus Arts, an architectural painting and historical restoration company, which has completed restoration projects on The Library of Congress, the United States Capitol, the Birch Bayh Federal Courthouse, and various other buildings across the U.S. and abroad.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
"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
"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.
"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."
************************************************************************************************************
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.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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