These are the small landscape paintings that will sell for $20.00cdn each.
You can see more at home web site:
I have two places in mind right now, where this proposal ought to ‘sell.’ Busy getting them together for showing this summer.
I do not mean to offend. So, if I do, please accept my apologies.
Some paintings finished, and some in progress, and some started.
My tentative title is “Patrons”.
And, here is my in progress exhibit proposal:
The name of the performance/installation I am proposing appropriates some of the cultural forms I have appropriated since living on reserve as a teacher. The demands and modes of the local economy, specifially, entails packing items in plastic tubs to travel to the area, $20.00 bills are the popular currency to have on hand, and making and selling art work at Toonie Tables, or Raffles, to fundraise for personal events, such as a wedding, to help a family member in crisis, to help pay for travel costs, as a supplement to low incomes, and to talented endeavours.
In my performance installation, 3 plastic, frosted transparent, tubs will be presented, which are packed with paintings, which is a previous painting project not yet exhibited. I will continue to make and sell these small paintings for $20. This additional income will go to pay towards my Grad student debt.
My oil paintings are entitled, Patrons, they will overlook the ‘scene’ of making and selling art works. Patrons, takes its name from Rembrandt’s patron paintings done as an aging painter, and the patron saints in the catholic church, whose presence is still strong on reserves in the Canadian North. The paintings depict a variety of roles particular to the existance of the art scene, that we all know: curator, director of gallery, artist, dealer, collector, teacher, viewer, etc.
More, more, more, searching and looking and painting today. It’s March Break and there is little to do up here otherwise for me.
It is a good place for that.
Painting, reading, walking. Where is the joy? I ask, because it is gone, some of the time. There is no place to shop, to go to, to be among people at a food fair. There is snow and ice and a few kids and dogs, a small plane is landing, which it does once a day.
What makes the ‘fine arts’ field? people.
curators
dealers
viewers
artists
art critics
art historians
conservators
evaluators
gallery owners
museum directors
gallery directors
art teachers
independents
so what.
This project has already begun. It is a few months old. 7 paintings are in various stages of progress.
They are based on a few things:
– art world ‘players’, or art stars, or the inside, the center from my place on the “outside”. Although, I may place the center of my world here or there, or elsewhere. The roles people take and the gestures in photos that shape and drive, and choose the art that I see online, in museums, galleries, etc. are what I am thinking and looking at, searching for, coming across.
This project is not meant to isolate figures in the art world, while they are in my mind, and that is what I am painting, I then look at what I painted.
As I continue on the project, the figures break down any preconcieved notions I have about the roles played, and expand on them, to reveal another creative source.
For awhile it felt like a negative critical place to paint from, but that has changed and I rather notice my outside’ness more so, as a joyous center.
