West Loop Faculty Exhibition | Steven Potter | Flowers
HCC Southwest | West Loop Gallery
Exhibition | October 14th - December 6th
Reception | Thursday, October 17th | 5pm-7pm
FREE
Registration is not required for this event. Everyone is welcome.
Description: The series “Flowers” started as a value shape demonstration in my painting class. The large Gladiola is a larger version of that small demonstration piece. It explores large scale, value shapes and modulation of edges. I have gone back to 500-year-old techniques of charcoal, drawing underpainting and buildup of translucent layers with no grid or mechanical means of projection being used, just freehand drawing and painting. The series explores abstraction in nature, as did the work of Georgia O’Keefe. By making the paintings large scale, I want to, as Georgia O’Keeffe said, let the flower become an entire world for a moment. A large part of the problem I set for myself was to explore à la prima painting in the tradition of Velasquez, Hal’s, Impressionists, Abstract Expressionism and many others with the physicality of the paint revealed rather than concealed by careful blending. There is also an interest in the surface of the paint itself and it’s association with paintings of the 20th century.
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Contact | rolando.reyna@hccs.edu
Division Chair | Katherine Rhodes Fields
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This event is presented by the MEDIA, VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS Center of Excellence. DEAN, Colleen Reilly, PhD • MEDIA ARTS DIVISION (Filmmaking, Audio Recording, Music Business) CHAIR, Melvin Mays, MS • VISUAL ARTS DIVISION (Studio Art & Art History) CHAIR, Katherine Rhodes Fields, MFA, MA TESL • PERFORMING ARTS DIVISION (Dance, Drama, Music) CHAIR, Susan Hines, MM •