TRANSMISSIONpresents:
JAMIE BOLING
and
BILL DONOVAN
Opening December 5, 7-10pmShow runs Dec. 5 - 27
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat 12-5or call for appointment
Closed on Christmas Day
TRANSMISSION321 Brook Rd. Richmond, VA 23220
phone: 804.200.9985
Jamie Boling's Artist Statement:
I am a product of contemporary popular culture. I grew up on Star Wars, Jaws, Easy Rider, posters of Farrah Fawcett, and video games. It was through these early mediated visual experiences that I began to engage fiction and encounter the possibilities of representation. The work that I make captures and catalogues the profound and fugitive moments of my cultural experience while it serves as an autobiographical survey of my evolving aesthetic. My work emerges from the study and influence of art-historical models and technical traditions as it confronts contemporary fiction and modern visual forms.
At the heart of my work is the belief that physical materials give an image context through their inherent historical, metaphorical, and linguistic implications. Likewise, images carry their own meaning when filtered through the lens of culture and individual experience. My interests reside in this convergence of material and image.
Bill Donovan's Artist Statement:
My work combines current events with my interior world. I represent current events with portraits of important people, and generally the portraits are of authors, musicians, scientists, radio show hosts, and politicians. I represent my interior world through cartoons that are reminiscent of early Disney and the Krazy Kat strip by George Herriman. Lately I have been attempting the synthesize the two worlds into imagery that is somewhere between traditional realism and the hyper exaggeration of cartoons.
While deployed to Kandahar Afghanistan as a National Guardsman I started drawing cartoons. Previously I had made images exclusively from source photos, but I was not always able to find photos there. So I started to represent my interior life with expressive cartoons that over time have grown to feel very powerful to me.
* Both artists are founding members of Paintallica
4 comments:
i need a show ....
have fun !
thanks, and we will have a good time.
It's opening during Richmond's first friday. They have gallery openings on the first friday of every month. So it should get a lot of foot traffic.
If I had wings, I'd be there!
Best of luck to the both of you... and don't forget to enjoy it all :)
I will have some fun, it should be pretty packed. Richmond has all the galleries open on the first friday of every month, so there should be some good foot traffic unless it is pouring rain or something.
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