Don Gray, contemporary paintings: abstract

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Two New Shows

I have two--count 'em--two shows opening next week, one in Portland OR and another across the river in Vancouver WA. The shows highlight two quite different bodies of work. The Cascade Sotheby's exhibit opens for First Thursday, June 2nd in Portland's Pearl District, featuring my "Frozen Ponds/Arcadian Forests" series of semi-abstract paintings.

Opening on First Friday, June 3rd at Boomerang in downtown Vancouver will be a group of realist paintings done over the years of my dear dogs Pablo and Winslow.

If you're near, hope to see you at one or both receptions, but if you can't make it then, don't worry--both shows will be up through the month of June.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

A Recent Series

Stone Boat
enamel on cradled board, 19" x 24"
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I never know for sure where a painting will go. This started out to be another stone painting, but evolved into a clunky, boat-like shape that I somehow liked and decided to develop. For me there is something poignant and moving about a boat out of water. This piece has led to several other works with boat forms, shown below. Click on the images to enlarge.

Boating in Tokyo
Enamel on gesso-coated paper, 62" x 72"
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The conventional reading of space in these paintings is often subverted by various means to create a deliberately ambiguous environment. I'm after an imaginative space, not a literal one.

The Geometry of Travel
Enamel on cradled board, 19" x 24"
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The Collection of Hours
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Seven See-Through Stones

Enamel on heavy gesso-coated paper, 61.5" x 72"
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Predicament

Enamel on heavy gesso-coated paper, 71" x 59"
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Color of the World

Enamel on heavy, gesso-coated paper, 61.5" x 72"
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It's always an open-ended journey with these paintings. This trip took me to a land of rich, deeply saturated color.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Celilo

Enamel on heavy, gesso-coated paper, 60" x 68"
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In 1981, artist Bill Viola made a videotape he called “Hatsu Yume (First Dream)”. In it there is a sequence where a fixed camera views a rock on a mountainside for a long period of time. People move around the rock, at first 20 times normal speed, then gradually slow to normal, then slow-motion. Here’s what Viola says about it:

“...What I look at in that scene is the rock, not so much the people. I thought it would be interesting to show a rock in slow motion. All that is really happening is that the rock’s time, it’s rate of change, exceeds the sampling rate (the recording time of the video), whereas the people are within that range. So the rock just sits there, high speed, slow speed...it doesn’t matter. I think about time in that way. There are windows or wavelengths of perception. They are simultaneous and interwoven at any one moment, but we are tuned only to a certain frequency range. This is directly related to scale changes in space or sound, proportion in architecture or music. A fly lives for a week or two, and a rock exists for thousands or millions of years."

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Center Pivot 2

Oil on cradled board, 30" x 30"
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Monday, March 4, 2013

Blue Fog

Acrylic on board, 49" x 54"
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I recently changed the proportions of this painting from the Stone series and did a little more work on it, so here's the current version.