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Artist: Gary Eleinko
Show: 'Works on Paper"
About the Show
Location: Pittmann-Puckett Gallery
Affirmations Center
290 W. Nine Mile Road
Ferndale, MI 48220
Dates: September 7th - October 4th
Reception: September 7th 5-8 pm
Hours: Mon-Sat. 9am - 9 pm
Artist Statement
Several decades ago, I began working in a painted construction format. The structures have used a variety of materials, including found objects. The works have usually utilized geometric or mathematical elements, including narrow rectangular prisms, X’s, XY (the male gene) , triangles, and patterns. These shapes and symbols appeal, because of the myriad number of meanings assigned to them,relating to subjects mathematical, religious, gender, or historic, and to concepts such as convergence, expansion, compartmentalizing, and balance. At times they have become minimal and color has become a more important part of the structural shape.
In recent years I’ve added imagery that harkens back to botanical painting I did years ago. Other images refer to geographical elements, natural forces, persons, and events. Some pieces have a private metaphorical meaning, and others are more openly obvious.
Works on paper, Watercolor/gouache and drawing, have always been a vital adjunct to the constructions. Many of the symbolic shapes and images appear in these as well. I tend to think about drawing much as I would about painting, using successive layers of color that build up over each other, leading to a density of color while maintaining a translucency. They are structured and controlled, often somewhat symmetrical.
A minimal aspect of some pieces comes from a desire to achieve a meditative response to the chaotic, stressed lives of many people in this tumultuous age. I find solace in color, shape, pattern, and their variation. Sections are meditations in color. Hues derive from, among other things, atmosphere, nature, emotion or personal content, and the exploration of color relationships in proximity to each other.
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