Tai Chi
Tai Chi is an art form and as such there are many complementary aspects of Tai Chi and painting. The most basic is that in Tai Chi you get out of the form what you put into the form. It is the same with any art form. To do is the way. I created this piece as a gift to my tai chi teacher. It’s called Heritage 8 x 8 encaustic collage
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A Few Works from 2010
I painted Still Life with Blue Bottle during the winter after my father’s illness and death. A quiet still life.
Still Life With Blue Bottle 8 x 10 oil on board
These selected pieces reflect my continuing interest in the figure as a form, but also as a vessel of memory. While I draw from live models regularly, the paintings are imagined, not painted from life. These are paintings I needed to do, based on versions of personal experience and observation — having fully imagined them and been unable to proceed further without getting them onto the canvas. At that point, the impetus fades and the work takes on a life of its own.
By the Pond 12 x 16 oil on canvas
Waiting 20 x 12 oil on canvas
“Bougainvillea” (below) is my delayed response to my mother’s asking me to do a painting
of flowers for her. I could never seem to find a way to approach that subject,
until I lived in California and was overwhelmed by raging, ubiquitous, masses of
bougainvillea. I did not have the time to consider them until this year, from
sketches I had done in 2001. It was only after I closed the gallery that I had
the necessary time to release these wild, delicate blooms from my memory.
Bougainvillea 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas
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Barbara Esmark My Girl Encaustic and Oil Paint 9″ x 7 ” an earlier piece from 2007
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Not only is this mask new to be Gallery, but this piece by Duarté has been done especially for be Gallery.
While we have had Octavio’s work in the gallery before, he began doing masks only this past year, and the ones we have were created for us. This mask is one of a kind, hand carved, painted and laquered.
We have three wonderful pieces from reknown Oxacan painter Juan Carlos Breceda. Yes, that is a fantastic square bull! Breceda’s pieces are so charming they make one smile, yet so masterful in design and use of color they are works to return to again and again to find new passages of light and space. These works are acrylic and pastel – an unusual combination – that combines the texture of pastel with the depth of color of the acrylic for a unique visual experience. Each measures 29″ x 22 ” and is $1200 unframed. Contact the gallery to discuss framing options.
Also in the gallery are works by Ronaldo Glaubitz. Glaubitz is one of the border artists; his father an anglo from the states, his mother Mexican from Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. I’ve been following and collecting Ronaldo’s work since the late 80’s when he did mostly portraits of local denizens of Rosarito and his family and friends. He’s currently painting urban scapes, configurations of figures, buildings, and energy with a very edgy, contemporary visual vocabulary. But the pieces are densely patterned and bring to mind not only his life in the highly populated cities of Tijuana and San Diego, but the intricate lacquered boxes and tapestries of Mexican artisans that are also part of his heritage. Ronaldo’s pieces are 13″ x 15″ framed and are $275.