Im pleased to have just returned from installing five paintings in the Downtown Albuquerque Flying Star Cafe. Not only is the location frequented by thousands of people in a month but its decor is retro-modern, complete with bright colors and high ceilings. Ive never hung my artwork anywhere like it, but I have to say it looks fan-tabulous. The show will be up for three months, so the exposure it will bring to my aesthetic will be invaluable.
The work at Flying Star includes Diptych, Sometimes We Know Differently (we dont forget), Untitled, and two new paintings without images on this website: Scare and Blue Day. Blue Day is a diptych of the same dimensions of Sometimes We Know Differently and Scare is a progression of the thick application technique also used in Chase. All of this work is done on Latex on Canvas and involves Pixels. Im noticing growth in the popularity of my infomatic aesthetic artwork - the work in this show was picked out directly from their listings on this website, and the new ones were brought along despite having no images and were included for fitting in well with the others.
The infomatic aesthetic term is one leant to me by the editor of my recently updated biographical statement. While her talents are many, the biggest gift of her contribution was to impartially summarize the aesthetic path my work follows, while linking its conceptual foundations, in a neat, tidy label; one that I can use responsibly, modestly, and accurately. It may assist my efforts to enable my work to be found, as the emergence of this particular aesthetic into mainstream art appears to be imminent; judging from a single Google search. There are blogs and websites dedicated to its showcasing, but even more so, there is a laundry list of colleges offering information aesthetic to art students who will invariably carry some of its influence into their work no matter which way it goes, or at least recognize it for the rest of their lives. To date, it is the most accurate label anyone has ever offered to my artwork, and I plan to keep it until another one rolls around.
Im not into labels, generally. I find them to be limiting, underestimating, judging, yada yada. Without at least one good one, however, explaining the artwork I do goes from a couple of succinct words to a paragraph dotted with uhms and ahs leading to a conceptual mess and the impression that what I do is not meant to be understood, enjoyed, or collected. The label, therefore, is a good tool for an artist to provide as a memorable framework for a new audience, to suggest an area of their personal experiences with which to relate to the artwork. The benefit of a label this good is that the work comes from the same place in me, and therefore the viewer can more accurately identify with or read the intent and energy of the artwork. This ultimately leads to more collection, more attention, more interest, and either more sales and/or more effect on the world, depending on if one is more important than the other.
These paintings will be hanging in Flying Star through the end of March. Their infomatic aesthetic will be harmonious with all of the efforts of people who go there to work on their laptops, and the people who stop there on a break from working on their computers. Conceptually, Flying Star is a well-matching companion to my work - so its highly appropriate that my longest show to-date should deck their halls. Even the colors and decor are spot-on. Ill look forward to any new opportunities that surface from this exposure.