Virginia Cole

at Virginia Cole Fine Art

The Canal

It is a sunny summer day (yellow undertones). You are traveling a canal on a boat. It is Sunday family excursion (a check mark at lower left middle). Blue skies (blue rectangle on the right). The water is murky blue(the blue figure on the left). The canal is old : here and there you can see the marks of age and decay(the brown figure in the low right, the black figure on the upper left). From time to time you are catching yourself thinking about work, Monday, what you have to do in the office(the blueish white area in the upper right and all elements in it: brown square, black lines).

Chase Langford

at Bryant Street Gallery

Commercial Street Carnivale

When you were little you liked fairs and folk holidays. The rides, the music, the food - it was pure joy. When you grew up you understand that they all are shallow standard commerce-driven enterprises. While getting old, the fairs regain their lost shine, but now that is nostalgia and memories.

Chuck Voelter

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Red Knot

Everyone has troubles, bad time (the black structure). But how could you distinguish between the bad and the good when there would not be the bad? Only by having bad times you can truly appreciate the good time. This wisdom (the purple spots) grows on the troubles as muscles on the bones.

Doug Kennedy

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Untitled

Different threads are weaved together to create a fabric. Different story lines are used to create the plot. We use the clothes to protect us from the environment and to hide our physical defects. We use entertainment to hide us from the environment and to protect from our psyche's defects.

Myong Stebbins

at Bryant Street Gallery

Poem from Gyeongju III

Love is like an intricate plant. It has roots - events that our conscience does not register. They lead us to the point in time when love gets out of ground, into the open. Love starts to bloom with flowers of desire (lilac spots in the center). They outgrow fast into the white down of comfort. A blow of wind takes the down away. Love sadly dies. But it leaves the seeds for the next spring.

Amanda Talley

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Shadows

You are getting a feeling that someone is watching you. You are getting nervous, almost paranoid. You are afraid of anyone following you. The problem is that you don't do anything worth hiding. But anyway you jump on every unexpected sound. And then you realize that this is your shadow. You are afraid of yourself. You are your worst enemy. This is true not only how you can treat yourself, for you know yourself best.

Chase Langford

at Bryant Street Gallery

Bondi 4

At first you are intrigued by mystery(the black spots). You start exploring. Pretty fast you get to the erotic part(the white-red figures in the left middle). The further explorations are giving you huge rewards in soul bonding(the blue figures on the left and light green field on the right). But the exploration never stops, it just elevates to the next level.

Naum Gabo

at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert(Art 43 Basel 2012)

Dissonanz, 1940

It is the birth of nazism. Greed(yellow) with racism (white) and romanticism(blue) creates the nazism(the grey cancer tumor). The nazism mix with pedantism(the brown figure) produces a double edged knife (the semi-transparent ribbon). The knife is a cold killing machine that is ready to cut anything and anyone, including its parents when it gets an order.

Robin Cole

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Resuscitating My Soul

The soul is dead. The significant events, good (white circles) as well as bad start to pull the soul out of the hole it was buried(the black figure in the lower left corner). The soul starts its fly(the black lines) as a spacecraft propelled by the gravitational forces of other souls and circumstances. It has sometimes a setback (a black line in the center toward the black circle). It is slowly moving to the door( the  partial rectangle in the upper right corner). The door is the portal to the next level, the happy one.

Riddle Edition 4

at Leonid Golender Art

Strongholds of Life

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Vargas-Suarez Universal

at GE Galeria (Volta NY 2013)

Vector Group: Organic Compound, 2012

There is an outside image : logical, organized and solid (the dark figures in the background). Then there is an inside image : vulnerable, soft and based on feelings (the organic structures on the upper left and lower right).  But the real you are the blinds (the grey vertical and horizontal lines). They filter what comes out and what gets in.

Andree Carter

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Bridge to Nowhere

People do strange things. They tend to waste time on useless hobbies. They create small guarded environments where they do virtual things that nobody seems to care about (the red bold figures). But some of them do it to escape gruesome reality they are living in (the black figures). Others are doing it to connect to people (thin red lines and leaks). They create networks of connections. Connections make the lives of people involved and lives of all people  much more interesting and varied.

Carol Farrow

at Gentry Fine Art

Vista

Some things can be healed. Some things can be welded. Some stuff can be fixed by putting a band-aid on. Sure, there are some scars, but you think that everything is fine. But the things are starting to fall apart inside(figures around the central crack). Gradually the things are changed so much that they don't fit together anymore. The parts drift apart, so they become two different structures.

Roy T. Durrant

at Art World Gallery

October Place

October - you still remember the summer : beach, sand and bikinis (a pair of white triangles on the black background in the center). There is a feast of colors around you : yellows, reds, browns, pinks, etc. But don't make a mistake - it is an agony before the death. You can see the black naked branches, barren ground. There is a dissonance between the lively wild colors of autumn and the melancholy you are feeling about the apparent decay and dying.

Meredith Pardue

Sea Change 12

The reason the majority of people do not commit suicide is they evolve. They are changing over time. The things that were huge in your life are fading into an oblivion. Old interests die. You stop contacting people that are not compatible with your state of mind (gray-green spots on the left). But the new things are born (blue spots in the center and the right). The new things are pulling after themselves other new stuff that interests you. Evolution.

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Ben Nicholson

Gouache, 1940-43

A couple (the rectangles combined from the colorful figures(black, beige, yellow, blue, white). They are felt connected. They have a lot in common. They are good together. But they are different. The things have different priorities.

Lee Kaloidis

07-21-10

Life puts traps, loops and detours(black structures) at you. But something is pushing you forward. This something is called fate, destiny or purpose(green structure). You are getting your rewards now and then ( red spots). The rewards are nothing comparing to when you meet another Life that is your soul-mate(the square in the upper left corner).

Sam Reveles

at CRG Gallery

Wilderness Study #23, 2007

A Scandal brings grief, problems and a turmoil for people that are directly involved (the dark blue doodles). Then it turns into a material for news and gossip(the blue doodles). Over time it become an anecdote(the white doodles). And of course you need a supply network to keep the flames glowing - tight knitted community of people (the background).

Howard Hersh

at Addington Gallery

Marquee

The Artist reaches deep inside her soul. She gets out of the darkness the bright flames of feelings. The Artist tries to put those onto a material plane - the flats of canvas or paper. Sometimes she succeeds, sometimes she needs to do better next time.

Pia Fries

at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2003/2004

All the tinsel will be washed away over time. All the unimportant stuff will be forgotten. The essence of your past emerges. And if you had a happy life (though you didn't realize it, while the events were unraveling), the happiness will dominate your memories(the light turquoise spots).

Amy Sillman

at Campoli Presti

A Shape that Stands Up and Listens #18, 2012 

Voyeurism is based on curiosity and a feeling of belonging. Those two are the basic instincts that a human being has to survive. People have been looking for new sources of food and shelter as long as they exist. Men herd all the time for better security. When you are peeping onto someone, you are succumbing to you curiosity. And when you see something that you should not, you feel belong to a group that knows the secret.

Voyeurism  . exhibitionists.voyeur

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Berthe Morisot

The Beach at Petit Dalles (aka On the Beach), 1873

The fuss of regular life is boring you. Those people on the foreground are too occupied with the details of everyday life. The sails call for freedom, adventure. The ships are promising a journey to far away exotic countries that you only have read about. The sea scares you with its might and absolute loneliness.

Adolfo Estrada

at Dan Galeria

Pintura 0394, 2003

Your life if a chain of different events. Some of them are good(colored figures), some of them are bad (the black figures). The bad events are here so you can distinguish between the bad and the good. When you know the bad, you can really appreciate the good. That's why the good things are bigger and more memorable.

Alain Séchas

at Galerie Chantal Crousel

Pastels 8, 2012

You have two forces pulling you in different directions : Logic (black lines) and Feelings(red lines). If you go by the Logic only, your life would be deserted and sterile (the right parts of the painting). If you succumb to your feelings, you would get overwhelmed by them. And eventually you would be drawn in chaos(the left parts of the painting). But if you keep to the middle (the center parts of the painting), avoiding extremities, your life will flourish. Balance is everything.

Steven Bindernagel

at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2011

This is a look into a big company. From the outside it could look as a big solid skyscraper from glass and steel. But these are the dirty insides that every company has. Everyone is building his own project. Everyone is trying to get as high as possible. It does not matter by what means. You can use your neighbor's plumbing or just build on top of the his room. If it is good to you, you can cooperate with others, and then abandon them in the middle to move to a better place. Welcome to the corporate jungle.

Juan Uslé

at Cheim & Read

SIN DESENLACE, 2007

The routine (the white lines that go from left to right) changes you. You can't feel it, because it does very very slow. As time goes by (the grey vertical lines) you are changing. The routine gets in the way. It annoyingly disturbs the the main picture. You think : "This is just a day job, but I am actually an artist". But you are wrong. You are only part-time artist. Only if you can use this to your advantage(the blue background triangular figure in the lower middle), you can get you break-through (the white figure in the center). Otherwise the conveyor of life will be moving without you notice ( the grey horizontal ribbons in the upper part).

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Auguste Herbin

Composition, 1940

The person is constantly under the influence of different forces. He wants something new, but he is afraid of new things. He sails out full of hopes. Then he turns back to his circle, because it is scary to be out there alone. He is in a contradiction. He zigzags from one course to another. He is full of power and energy. But never ending changing of direction and types of actions take him nowhere.

Eventually the power dies out, the individual becomes static (small orange circle with yellow border in the upper left center).