Your Art
Here:
The Fairfield County Weekly Exhibition
City Lights Gallery
Bridgeport, CT
August 17-September 9, 2006
My pMy painting Geppetto was the subject of The
Fairfield County Weekly's "Your Art Here" section.
I'll be showing 5 works in the related exhibtion at City Lights Gallery
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Writeup for Geppetto |
I tell ghost stories in paint and mixed media. My work blends figurative and abstract elements. The faint images I see emerging from an abstract background often determine the story of the completed painting. I see the world as a living internal narrative landscape. When I look closely across my landscape, I see the images of mask wearers and ghosts and lost children trying to find their way home. I work intuitively and spontaneously, embracing the “art of fouls” to bring the contradictions of anger, sadness and a fiercely protected shred of hope to my art. I rarely know where a piece is going, but I know when we get there. In painting Geppetto, a moment came when I stepped back from the unfinished canvas and knew the face of my father.“So there you are, old man. So that’s where you’ve been hiding.” And then, like a good son, wanting to be a real boy, I finished the painting. Michael Raleigh, 2005 |