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| CURRENT EXHIBITION |
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| November 19 - January 8, 2005 |
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| Gallery Two |
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| BRENT RILEY |
New Drawing and /Paintings on Wood
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| Paintings |
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| Brent Riley (Gallery Two) |
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| Rules: | 1- All drawing must be made with a Cross black ballpoint pen on pine planks (@ 9" X 12"). The ink may be rubbed to create subtle shading- as subtle a tone as is possible on wood.
2- All color has to be made with watercolor or acrylic- The color may reinforce the image, or go completely counter and set up an obstacle to be dealt with. The pieces are then coated with a UV filtering varnish.
3- All pieces must be improvised- no preliminary drawing on the wood- no sketches beforehand- only pre-thinking is allowed.
4- All pieces must be completed within a week. This dampens the habit of working one area until it's complete- he must watch the clock as he makes a coherent and balanced image.
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Riley is not trying to be cute with these rules, as much as he's trying to find a balance between his obsession for the finish of each work and the urge to be rid of that obsession. There are probably all sorts of psychological implications for the images and the rules, but he doesn't really care to analyze.... When it
comes to the figures, he's more interested in how they fit together and what kind of "play" (use any meaning you choose here) is generated. At a certain point in each piece the way the forms relate take over the course of the drawing and tell him what needs to go where.
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