Following up with my involvement in The Sketchbook Project in 2014! I now have access to their Digital Library documentation of my sketchbook. It feels like forever ago, but the ideas from that little book are still pulsing in my studio. The energy, the shapes and the experimentation with media continue to translate. My sketchbook… Continue reading UPDATE: Involvement in ‘The Sketchbook Project’
Tag: painting
Painting on Postcards
The series “Painting on Postcards” consists of organic painted shapes playing on the glossy, clean surfaces of expired art-show postcards.
The Chocolate and Art Show – Los Angeles
This December the 5th & 6th, I am going to be a part of one of the largest underground art shows in Los Angeles, CA! The Chocolate and Art Show will be a two-day show at KGB Studios in downtown L.A., showcasing live painting, live music and tons of visual art. The show encompasses the… Continue reading The Chocolate and Art Show – Los Angeles
Paintings on Art Show Postcards
A series in development of paintings on top of old past art show promotional postcards, responding to the existing pictorial quality with paint to create a sense of depth.
Artist at En Em Art Space
I can’t explain how thrilled I am to have heard back from a gallery I applied to for professional gallery representation. I am pleased to share that I will now be an artist at En Em Art Space in Sacramento, CA! En Em Art Space The schedule for the next calendar year is still brewing,… Continue reading Artist at En Em Art Space
Artist at Simpli Unique
I’m excited to say I have made my first official business deal for my art career by being a part of an upcoming design company for cell phone cases with the focus on artist collections. The usual cell phone case designs are mass productions casually slapped onto surfaces for sale; Simpli Unique takes actual working… Continue reading Artist at Simpli Unique
Soaked Strings
Drawings from the series “Soaked Strings” Soaked strings, streams of ink thick and thin. Clumps and pools, and vast deserts of empty space. The marks are an attempt at harmony and yet with a furious dissonance. Quick energetic marks play with the subtitles of each pigments application. The crumbling, gritty and dried-out quality of the… Continue reading Soaked Strings
Artist Journal #18
“Overlapping of Perceived Shape” Concealing, overlapping, skewed, misrepresented visual information. Cake. Caked desert. Harsh desert sand and heat. Red hot heat; not blood red. Tension, outlining. Lost imagery. Created boundaries. Depth by illusion and actuality. Continuous motion. Frustrated. Dirt, dirty, dust, dusty. Entangled. I saw the shapes. They came to me in my vision. They… Continue reading Artist Journal #18
New Paintings & Drawings
A collection of my most recent studio endeavors. No series information yet, but there will surely be more work on the way!
Excavation
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
Kalel R. Cloonan 