House of the Green Garden: A Quick Tour
Labels: The Local Scene
posted by MC @ 17:35
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The Illuminated Manifesto published daily by the North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop.
14 November 2008
The Illuminated Manifesto published daily by the North Edmonton Sculpture Workshop.
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3 Comments:
It was nice to see Edmonton ward 4 city councillor Jane Batty attend the opening reception for the show.
All in all, it was a good turnout for a Saturday afternoon, and only 3 of the works remain unsold, as of tonight: like the other ten though, I'm sure they'll go quickly...
... make that two works left...
Congratulations, Nola.
And a decent couple of paragraphs, MC. Unless it's simply a little MC-style newlywed cheekiness, "lush and flourishing fecudity of [...] a versatile artist seen in full bloom", isn't entirely clear.
I think the exhibit is tropical and vibrant. My best-in-show pick would be the squarish one that heads the video (I neglected to note its title). Along with the watercolour washes underlying these pictures, I really like the greens that ground them, and standing rather close to any one provides a refreshing oasis-like wash of information.
As for constructive criticism: I generally found myself preferring those pieces that depict shallow (zoomed-in) settings using patterned floral reductions to the more specific renderings of widely spread garden landscapes. Which isn't the simplistic 'flatter is better' trope it may seem, but recognition that the range of mark-making in these pictures, though broad, isn't quite inventive enough to convincingly render both distant and near detail in relative proportionate exactness. In certain other spots, punchy neighbouring colours cause a fore/aft flipping effect that adds slightly to my confusion in grasping the perspective of grander vistas.
But they aren't only or even primarily about conveying credible perspective - they're one part expressionistic (gardens as the artist feels about them), one part impressionistic (remind one of like garden experiences), and a third part transcript (describing the artist's view of a particular garden at a particular moment).
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