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A RELATIVE NARRATIVE for RELATIVE BOUNDARIES
CHARLEE SWANSON , visual artist .
IN the spirit of JOSEPH BEUYS ;
IN the spirit of ART BRUTE …
CHARLEE SWANSON questions our relationship to ART and OUR ways of seeing the world .
CHARLEE SWANSON makes sculpture that does not look like traditional art .
HIS sculpture utilizes :
BROKEN GLASS
RUSTED METAL
LIGHT and SHADOW
QUESTIONS to ask are :
WHAT is a NARRATIVE ?
WHEN does TRANSPARENCY gradually become OPAQUE and thematic ?
CAN the act of SEEING be turned in on itself ?
CHARLEE SWANSON at OK HARRIS presented the series ; BURNED & BROKEN and AMERICAN LANDSCAPE .
THESE series are WALL WORKS presented inside the central hallway at OK HARRIS gallery in SOHO , NY , NY .
THESE OBJECTS PORTRAY THAT which is REAL and are NOT utopian …
THESE wall works are sculpture that constitute a narrative which HINTS AT containment
AND , most importantly HINT of that which IS beyond itself …
ASPECTS of the REAL as bigger than itself , and something ELSE .
WE SEE ; BURNED CANVASSES with BROKEN GLASS .
AS IF ,the object were a window which is now broken AND shows that its usual role is now thematic and to be EXAMINED …
THEY REFER TO categories and ARBITRARY containment .
SEEING the box and its containment …
SEEING the world and its containment …
SEEING the universe and its containment .
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE presents BROKEN GLASS / BARBED WIRE and rusty metal in the format of a possible landscape .
THESE WALL WORKS jut out of the wall casting shadows of BROKEN TRANSPARENCY and that which contains THEM ...
AS SUCH , BOTH series depict transformation as metaphor for arbitrary boundaries and ESCAPE ...
PERSONAL boundaries …
NATIONAL boundaries …
SPIRITUAL boundaries …
AND eventually cosmic boundaries .
ART is simply a category of SEEING .
BY SEEING containment and looking beyond this LOOKING ,
THIS art alludes to boundaries AND what may BE BEYOND …
CHARLEE SWANSON , visual artist .
IN the spirit of JOSEPH BEUYS ;
IN the spirit of ART BRUTE …
CHARLEE SWANSON questions our relationship to ART and OUR ways of seeing the world .
CHARLEE SWANSON makes sculpture that does not look like traditional art .
HIS sculpture utilizes :
BROKEN GLASS
RUSTED METAL
LIGHT and SHADOW
QUESTIONS to ask are :
WHAT is a NARRATIVE ?
WHEN does TRANSPARENCY gradually become OPAQUE and thematic ?
CAN the act of SEEING be turned in on itself ?
CHARLEE SWANSON at OK HARRIS presented the series ; BURNED & BROKEN and AMERICAN LANDSCAPE .
THESE series are WALL WORKS presented inside the central hallway at OK HARRIS gallery in SOHO , NY , NY .
THESE OBJECTS PORTRAY THAT which is REAL and are NOT utopian …
THESE wall works are sculpture that constitute a narrative which HINTS AT containment
AND , most importantly HINT of that which IS beyond itself …
ASPECTS of the REAL as bigger than itself , and something ELSE .
WE SEE ; BURNED CANVASSES with BROKEN GLASS .
AS IF ,the object were a window which is now broken AND shows that its usual role is now thematic and to be EXAMINED …
THEY REFER TO categories and ARBITRARY containment .
SEEING the box and its containment …
SEEING the world and its containment …
SEEING the universe and its containment .
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE presents BROKEN GLASS / BARBED WIRE and rusty metal in the format of a possible landscape .
THESE WALL WORKS jut out of the wall casting shadows of BROKEN TRANSPARENCY and that which contains THEM ...
AS SUCH , BOTH series depict transformation as metaphor for arbitrary boundaries and ESCAPE ...
PERSONAL boundaries …
NATIONAL boundaries …
SPIRITUAL boundaries …
AND eventually cosmic boundaries .
ART is simply a category of SEEING .
BY SEEING containment and looking beyond this LOOKING ,
THIS art alludes to boundaries AND what may BE BEYOND …
BY G. SCOTT LAMANNA
ABSTRACT ARTIST
LOST IN THOUGHT GALLERY
ABSTRACT ARTIST
LOST IN THOUGHT GALLERY
