t'alyne : Artist

Webb School, Knoxville, Tennessee studio view

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:04:54 +0000

Q- Do you start your pictures with a plan or look in mind?

A- I will sometimes start a picture thinking- What will happen if I work with 3 blues and another color, and maybe more or less of the other color than the combined blues. And very often midway through the work I have to change the basis of the experience. Or, I add and add to the canvas. If becomes overworked and beyond help, I start over.

Water, Webb School, Knoxville, Tennessee

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:58:33 +0000

“I paint very large pictures. The reason I paint them is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view with a reducing glass. However, when I paint large pieces, I am inside them. It isn’t something you command….”

Water, Webb School, Knoxville, Tennessee

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:55:33 +0000

“Gesture is what my mark is. Gesture must appear out of necessity, not habit. I don’t start with a color order but find the color as I go. I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. The whole business of how accidents are controlled, how edges meet, the small area of color in a big canvas; it all fascinates me.”

Water, Webb School, Knoxville, Tennesse

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:53:02 +0000

Installation view

Water, Webb School, Knoxville Tennessee

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:46:57 +0000

Painting is the only art form, except photography, which is without time. Music takes time to listen to and ends, writing takes time and ends, movies end, ideas and even sculpture take time. Painting does not. It never ends, it is the only thing that is both continuous and still. It’s a still place. Its like one word, one image….

Artstops

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:28:16 +0000

At the same time that glass reveals, it conceals. If one looks into a glass showcase one can have the illusion that the container is neutral, without apparent interest in the content of what it displays; or, conversely, the appearance of what is contained can be seen as a function of the qualities of the container itself. The use of glass gives another illusion: that what is seen is seen exactly as it is. Through the glass one sees the technical workings of the company and the technical engineering of the surrounding buildings and architectural structure. The glass’s literal transparency not only falsely objectifies reality, but is a paradoxical camouflage for while the actual function of a corporation may be to concentrate its self-contained power and control by secreting information , its architectural facade give the impression of absolute openness. The transparency is visual only; glass separates the visual form the verbal, insulating outsiders from the content of the decision making processes, and from the invisible, but real, interrelationships linking company operations to society. In looking through glass, the interior is lost (one looks through and not at) to the apparent materialness of the outward form, or to Nature (light, sun, sky, or the landscape glimpsed through the building on the other side.)

Over the river and through the woods

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:16:30 +0000

fiberglass, varnish, pigment

8′x15′

This piece was installed 85′ underground in the old gypsum mines in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sliding the panels open one entered into the mine tunnels to view the Emerge exhibition. The air temperature is roughly 58 degrees at all times and the sounds of the dripping water are a constant background noise. During the exhibition there was a drumming circle that performed which added to the ambiance of the cavelike atmosphere. Touring the mines are no longer open to the public so this exhibition offered the public a once in a life time experience. Fees were collected at the entrance and donated to the YMCA Domestic Crisis Center in Grand Rapids.

Over the river and through the woods

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:12:49 +0000

fiberglass, varnish, pigment and steel

8′x15′

Research for this work was done in Northern Michigan on the Frey Foundation farm. I spent two summers exploring the woods, swamp, and orchards on this 900 acre farm. I was interested in the internal and external experiences of tromping over fields and woods. I rediscovered the feeling of struggling through heavy underbrush and hacking my way through brambles and woods. The success of working through this struggle when nature would give way to the ease of a grassy field was satisfying. I am amazed by the sunlight filtering through the treetops and the dappling of light on the forest ground.

t’alyne Studio view

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:52:18 +0000

Abstract work carries with it an invitation to adventure- in the true sense of the word “adventure”…that is to say something not known, where it is really impossible to predict how things will go.

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Studio view

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:04 +0000