3 Gallery Viewings

I had gone to Furlong Gallery to view my three pieces.
"From the Earth to the Flesh and Back Again" (diptych) Carey Dean Oil/Canvas
Carey's two piece dyptich contrasts warm and cool shades of what seems to be a nature seen combined with elements of being able to see a life form emerge from it. The baron dried desert look of almost death compared to the lush environment contradicting it. It almost shows the highlife and lowlife of this one region, the struggle of life and death. The lines flow with many contour lines moving your eye around the piece.
"FLOTSAM" Bryan Ritchie Charcoal/Paper
Floating inflatable ducks suspended in a sea of what looks like crinkled paper with the use of foreshortening along with atmospheric perspectuve makes the piece move front to back. The sea of paper is very carefully smoothed while the inflatable ducks have a cartoonish movement about them trying to show their floating coarse. The ducks have very thick lineweights not particulary paid attention to; all with mysterious eye.
"Sequena 30" Jada Schumacker Digital Print
My first impression is seeing this very bold image with strict vertical stripes. Each stripe that I look at seems to jump off the page at me. It's contrasting colors lying next to each other seems to blur the page together. The longer you look at the image the more blurred and cross contaminating the colors get. You need to keep blinking to keep focus. The three white stripes throughout the piece keep bringing my eyes back to the whole piece. The rounded corners add another aspect of taking the image to the wall.

First Project

I want to further understand; who H.B. Halicki was. I know that he was an entrepreneur in the film industry who directed the original Gone In 60 Seconds along with other cult classic movies. This movie has enticed me since I was a kid. The combination of continuous action with a story plot surrounding automobiles kept me smiling from ear to ear. Halicki's films were short lived due to his tragic death in the filming of the second Gone In 60 Seconds where a planned explosion of a water tower went wrong.
I plan on doing a collage of Halicki's life as a film director with references to his films produced and the legacy that he leaves. Halciki's wife is trying to continue her husband's legacy by going further in depth into his life and the things he's done.