The Gallery at The Brooks is pleased to have on exhibit for the month of June, the thrown and splattered paintings of artist, Diana Carey
Jacaranda 4/ 24x24" thrown and splattered paint on canvas 2015
Diana Carey's Tree Triptych is on semi permanent display in the lobby of The Sunshine Brooks Theatre. She is also our resident fine art curator. Come meet Diana and view her works during the Oceanside First Friday Art Walk, June 5 6-9pm in The Gallery at The Brooks. Yael and Vlad from Big Boss Bubeleh will be performing in the lobby.
Life is not
a straight line
Diana
Carey’s paintings are painted with a gestural technique; throwing, splattering
and dripping numerous layers of acrylic house paint onto prone canvas using
brushes and sticks. The paintings subject matter varies from landscape to nests
and tangles. The technique is abstract, the style, impressionism.
Many of the
works are over eight feet. By virtue of size and technique the viewer is led
into the tangled threads and splatters of paint to discover the substance and
feel of the subject matter, the essence of the painted, formed amidst the
perceived chaos of drips and splashes. A performance art visualized with
impasto effect, one whose outcome is immediately recognized as being rendered
with intent, without intention rendering technique. There is an element of
unpredictability, due to the technique, which allows for the perceived chaos to
coalesce into an image, with observation.
What may
initially appear to be simple tosses of paint, is actually quite difficult.
Numerous times paintings have been discarded because the work has not come
together correctly to create the interpretational essence envisioned by the
artist, which is the feel of the image, not a photographic representation, but
the idea of the subject. The emotions invoked when one experiences that subject
or environment, in a personal as well as universal manner, is what the artist
strives to attain.
