| Above: Unus Mundus, The One, 12" diameter, oil paint, Venetian plaster, mica with 12k gold on board. $250. |
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During holidays our focus tends toward home, friends; family. This is a natural thing, and a welcoming change to the outward focus of most of our lives. With the advancing intrusion of the electronic, digital world(s), there is a loss of our interior spaces. These places are what attach and connect us to the world. It is in the interior worlds where our imagination asserts itself, where our own thoughts weave together an understanding of the world. This is essential placement. It is the source of our own aliveness. Technology has created a bubble of the exterior. When we are engaged with it, we are living an external life. We translate ourselves (the interior space) to the exterior. We cannot live both, in the interior simultaneously with the exterior. To spend much of our time in the exterior space pinches our interior world. It diminishes that world. Engaging with artwork is an essential nutrient for the interior space. When we look with our own eyes, see with our own context, and feel with our universe of emotions, the experience of the visual language yields enrichment. Even if there's limited resonance with the work we are experiencing, we are constructing a conversation that expands that interior space. In the new year, I'm wishing each of you extended time in the interior space. May you find joy and delight there. Thank you for your ongoing support. |
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Above: Some Energy, oil paint, 12k gold on panel, 7" diameter. We are giving away the above painting. The giveaway began December 18th! Click the link to enter. Winner announced on December 29th. Follow @kbfitzgeraldart on Instagram for more information. |
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Above: Some Clouds 15" diameter, oil with mica and silver on yupo, mounted on panel
$650.
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This work is part of an exhibit at Artsy.net, Glance Gander Gaze, organized and curated by Deborah Barlow. From her curatorial statement: |
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Glancing is an instinctive, automatic action—a survival mechanism that continuously monitors our ever-changing surroundings. Unlike the detached nature of the gaze, glancing links us more intimately with the world we inhabit, collecting a wealth of information. Peripheral vision and bodily sensations are both acknowledged in this process. “Glancing discovers whole colonies of the to-be-seen world,” writes Casey. “Places where sight has never before been—or if it has, it now sees differently. The glance guides the eye as it comes to know the perceived world, leading it out of morestaid and settled ways of looking.” Gander occupies a middle ground between the glance and the gaze. It is a willingness to wander without intention, to explore what is often overlooked. Gandering can take us into disorientation, perplexity and the undiscovered. The benefits of letting the eye meander can be surprising. Read the full statement here. View the show here. |
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Visit @fairshareart on Instagram! New work is added on the first of each month. You can find these two works until December 31, 2023. |
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Top: The Flower Opens, 16 x 12," unframed, oil with silver and 12k gold on prepared paper, $450. Bottom: Titicus, 14 x 11," unframed, watercolor on transluscent yupo, $350.
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During the month of January, find these two works, along with many other gorgeous pieces by contemporary artists. Below, top: Pandora's Bowl, 13" diameter, oil with mica and 12k gold on panel, installs with a cleant, $350. Below, bottom: Portal, 10.8 x 10.2," unframed, watercolor on prepared paper, $350.
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