GUY BURWELL Painting Art Event Portland

"Broad Strokes" Guy Burwell art show opening June 30 at Screaming Sky Gallery. June 30- thru July 24 in Portland, OR

http://www.screamingskygallery.com

"Send a request to info@screamingskygallery.com and be invited to an online exclusive sneak preview of the show."

GUYBURWELL : "Broad Strokes", Screaming Sky Gallery Portland, OR 2011

"Have fun", she said. So there you go.

Some of the tens and tens of people who are familiar with Guy Burwell's more recent works in the world of screen printing will recognize all of the themes present in this new batch.

Lines and figures, spaces made flat with line turned dimensional with colors and patterns and tones and shades and richly woven cloth. Those familiar themes were a familiar place to start again. They were going to revisit painting again. Then they were going to have a show.

He used to paint more than he has and he wants to again, but not like before.

Those same tens and tens of people who know Guy's work know how anal he appears to be in his art constructions.

The idea, she said, was instead of planning, just jump right in.

Instead of reproductions let's have original pieces with first thoughts laid down and made permanent.

Let's have initial impressions and impulsive gestures and let's have you loosen your brain and take give yourself a break and don't be a jerk. "Have fun," she said again. So we started from a place we had been visiting lately; a place of figures and forms and femmes and fabric and with those qualities established to form the base camp for exploration, we set off in search of this "fun" she wanted us to have.

And it was fun.

So we look at these as sketches and as paintings, paintings and sketches, unrefined but finished, and
a bit refined, too. They are complete, each in their capacity as a link to the next, and each complete
in their delivery of fresh goods. Fresh to us and freshly laid down. Each hinting at something more, something more coming along, nearly ready to show itself, to make another set of first impressions.

These first impressions are made in broad strokes, to start.