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John Greenwald
- 67, Male
- New York, N./Y.
- United States
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Acrylic on luan wood panel, 2' x 3'
Small Person GIANT Presence at Loading Dock Gallery
June 27, 2009 from 5pm to 8pm
Come to the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios for the opening reception of "Small Person GIANT Presence," an exhibit featuring photography by Meghan Moore and paintings by Ashlee Welz Smith.
People, Standing at The Loading Dock Gallery
May 8, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
A reception for Rebekah Wetmore as she presents an exciting collection of new work!
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- What is your Medium?
- Painting, Drawing
- If you have a studio at WAS, where can we find you?
- Studio 505, main building
- Tell us about yourself.
- I paint the nude figure in an unplanned, expressionist manner, using acrylics, watercolors, gouache, colored inks and other mixed media on paper and wood panels. Working quickly and intuitively, I try to convey and explore color, personality and emotion, and to create paintings that engage the eye. I use the nude figure the way a jazz artist uses a Gershwin melody — as a starting point for an improvisation. Some paintings might suggest relationships or a story, others a moment in time, an abstraction, or perhaps a landscape.
For many years, I made gesture drawings on paper, which are quick sketches artists use to warm up. Their aim is to capture the model’s poses in a few, fast, economical strokes. I combine groups of gesture drawings into unified works resembling cinematic or storyboard arrangements. At best, they are full of move-ment and expressive exaggeration.
Recently, I’ve been working on large wood panels. Here, the basic drawings of the figures still are as intuitive and spontaneous. But painting on wood has made me more conscious of color and the benefits of exaggeration, distortion and the application of paint itself.
Also, I’ve been long been drawing a series of gestures in panoramic, accordion-fold books, hoping to create an impulsive sense of movement and experi-mentation. I don’t draw and paint each figure in an ordered sequence. Rather, I scatter 20 to 25 drawings throughout the length of each book. There’s a risk that taken together these drawings might not flow or work as a single piece. Some-times they don’t. But when they do, there’s an added exhilaration to the series.
In all my work, I aim to let whatever occurs between my eyes and my hand happen as freely and intuitively as possible, and to have “outside-the-envelope” adventures in color. I hope you, the viewer, respond with equal sense of spontaneity and excitement.
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- http://johngreenwald.com
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Thanks for the invitation! I loved talking with you yesterday! Nice presentation. I still need to do mine.
Donna :)