Picasso's Guernica

Historically, Art has contained messages concerning, Political, Religious, Environmental, Race,War and dealing with many rights of the marginalized peoples of our Country and beyond. Picasso's Guernica was one such work. While this post is certainly not of Picasso's caliber, I have taken my plea of our current status concerning my political angst in a very simple and easy way to tell a story of what it means to me about America's Values...

Make America True Again Make America Friendly Again Make America Green Again Make America Legal Again Make America Smart Again Make America Readers Again Make America Responsible Again Make America Voters Again Make America Savers Again Make America Thinkers Again Make America Generous Again Make America Protectors Again Make America Honorable Again Make America Respectful Again  Make America Truthful Again...

I believe that more words are needed to be mentioned. The words that are important for leadership. Leaders for America should be of the highest, brightest and most qualified with backgrounds in education and experience pertaining to position.

Make America's Leaders Truthful Again, Make America's Leaders Honest Again Make America's Leaders Constitutional Again Make Americas Leaders Work Together Again Make America's Leaders Accountable Again, Make America's Leaders Civil Again Make America's Leaders Honorable Again Make America's Leaders Scientifically Qualified Again Make America's Leaders Have Term Limits

 

Last Night after the opening at the Techne Art Center, I dreamed the dream of wondrous art in Oceanside. The melding of the Artists from New York and San Diego county had the effect on this viewer of being in a New York gallery in Chelsea NY. Teleportation was experienced in East Oceanside CA on a Saturday night and I was in overdrive viewing art from new artists giving us works of rare beauty and intellectual excitement.

Ben Godward

Today, I am in a state of afterglow feeling that somehow, I took with me elements of art given with such great heart from the Teche Gallery, Art that stays in my minds eye and sings in my heart.

A long time in coming, Oceanside, a town that was called by the local newspaper as a vast cultural wasteland has transformed. We now have an Art Center with an important gallery and proposed residency studios for artists coming this year.

I spoke with two of the Artists of their art and how the making of their work imbued me with wonder and the correlation to my own background of sculpture and painting. The two processes often overlap in unconscious and inexplicable ways.

Ben Godward spoke with me the trials and tribulations of resin sculpture. The making of molds and the toxicity of the media its self. Pouring liquid resin is an effort which combines the artself with the dexterity of learned muscle memory. When successful, a thing of incomparable beauty will emerge. The concave structure of the giant transparent rainbow colors are mesmerizing and the work draws you in with a gentle vibration of color music. The shadows are infinite and give the work a feeling of a dream...

Mathew Bacher   is a painter's painter. His brush strokes of elegant fury give way to images of imaginations of which, “I have been here before”. I stood here for a long time, recognizing my own past experiences which of course are far different that his art works, but have an otherness basis coming from the silver strands of our collective efforts to do the stuff we call art. 

 One of the paintings give hint to his background in sculpture, the pouring of the liquid bronze. However, this painting gives the pour of angst of time, a white hot stream of imagination and strength desiring and overcoming new competition of mankind...

Mathew Bacher

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 Eureka CA...my place for being

Intermission

Last week, my journey from the madness of our daily life, created by our Nation's new course of leaving a two hundred and fifty years of Democracy and Constitutional rule, I found a few moments of reflective interaction, an intermission if you will, with the artists now on exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art.

The Starlings

Matt Devine's sculpture captures the inner wanderings of his emotional ties to his environment of Oregon's unspoiled nature and the beauty of just being. His work, an abstraction of the flora and fauna on his walks are translated into steel and aluminum. The overlay of layers of the long and beautiful strands of steel bring rhythmic dancing shadows enchanting to the viewer. As I moved around the sculptures, the enchantment caused a Mind Meld that caught me in an endless embrace. “The Starlings”, flying across the vast end of the gallery, soared with a wonder of flight and lightness of the birds and belied the heaviness of steel.

A path in Matt's world "Walk with Me"  

There was a video entitled, Walk with Me. I sat on the designated bench and watched with remembrance of when I lived in Eureka CA. Often, I walked paths in the Great Sequoia Forrest and felt a great solace of peace. The Music of Nature is our greatest treasure, and Matt has given us a look of his paths translated into permanent works of Art.

Mary Jhun

The other artist that was deeply relevant for me is Mary Jhun. Her paintings of the mind numbing experience of wearing a C-pap for sleep apnea. The paintings haunted me with memories of my husband wearing this machine to keep him breathing through the night. He hated it, and called it Damascus...

Mary Jhun however, painted this machine which took away her dreams in surreal elements of color and exquisite detail of her mind intertwined with the parts of the machine. I was stunned by the recognition of what my husband had tried to tell me about his experience with this machine, but his telling was told in terms of computerize...Her journey of living with this device became the vehicle of her finding dream painting. The images are profoundly beautiful and giving this viewer a greater understanding of how machines can not only be life saving but, a telling of stories to the public of how one person's experience brings the realization of a new and wondrous path to create art.