Summer Brilliance in Columbia
‘Midnight Floral’ didn’t start out as one of my favorite works, but over the months it has become such – the contrast between light and dark, color and grey, realism within abstraction, has grown on me.
Been a while since I’ve exhibited in Columbia – various reasons for that. But my absence had nothing to do with disenchantment for the gallery at all. The Columbia Art League remains the most dynamic and expressive gallery in Greater Missouri. I have the highest regard for the administrators as well as for the artists on exhibit there. This particular exhibit especially so, because it isn’t restricted to a theme. More and more (and I’ve written about this before) I’ve come to find exhibition themes to be terribly restrictive. On occasion I’ve rationalized that a given work fit a theme when it really didn’t or failed to recognize when a work fit a theme perfectly. Probably why I have been there for a few months – sometimes an artists needs to simply back off.
Repose accomplished. Please stop in and see all the great artists on exhibit there.
- CH