These panels are a series informed heavily by the processes of excavation. The surface of each panel developed through layers of paint and collage over the period of nearly a year, with each new session bringing both new overlapping layers as well as scraping away of older layers. A history of creative problems solving lies… Continue reading Excavation
Tag: California
Cut-Outs
A side project developed from Those Closed Shapes; a continued obsession with Subjective Contour Completion.
Organ Collage
The saturated colors of magazine clippings in paring with the brilliancy of alizarin crimson, make for potent imagery that appears almost microscopic in nature. Examples shown are small experiments indicative of an idea for future larger works.
Salton Sea Art Trip 2014
These sketchbook drawings were completed while on a four day art trip to the desert, with a group of photographers, performance artists and adventurers. On this trip, I was particularly interested in the industrial factories and the surrounding desolate landscape.
Advanced Painting Sketchbook (2013-2014)
This is a sketchbook I hand-bound and began using in my advanced painting class of winter 2013. I still work in this sketchbook today, and it still proves to be vitally important to my current studio work.
Large Scale Painting Completed: “A Breath of Fresh Air”
After going through many compositional changes throughout the past few months, and having began its existence in early 2013, this large scale painting has just now been stretched and completed this March 2014! What used to be a double canvas, un-stretched, hanging-free piece has now been divided into two separate works. With its re-orientation and… Continue reading Large Scale Painting Completed: “A Breath of Fresh Air”
Artist Jounral #16
1/30/14 This journal entry consists of linguistic brainstorming for titles of my new drawings. Typically, when I am titling my work I will sit down with it and write out almost small stories about my feelings and reactions to the finished piece. Sometimes this journaling will involve memory of the experience of making it, or… Continue reading Artist Jounral #16
Artist Journal #15
1/20/14 It’s all about response; reaction; react. It’s about reacting to previous mark. It begins with the immediate mark, no matter what it’s based on, even if it’s based on pure instant automatic drawing; instant feeling; instant motion; instant hand gesture. It’s about action, most importantly. Action and reaction. Reaction to mark, to color, to… Continue reading Artist Journal #15
Artist Journal #14
12/20/13 Angry Drawing (Lg scale 2) It began with an unfinished and unsuccessful crumpling of primed canvas. It needed an element of collage; a physicality of deeper layers. I felt as if I was digging- masking and scraping the colors like soil and gold. The pearl white was like a shimmering of frost/snow/ice – beneath… Continue reading Artist Journal #14
The Sketchbook Project: Brooklyn Art Library
It’s done, scanned and sent off to Brooklyn! So glad I participated in this great global project. Look for my sketchbook in the Brooklyn Art Library in NY or online on their digital database. Or if you are in the area when the traveling bus comes to California, look me up!
Kalel R. Cloonan 