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2010 Allied Arts Juried Artist Series

  • Writer: sharonkingston
    sharonkingston
  • Jun 27, 2010
  • 1 min read

Interpretations: with the sculptures of Francie Allen and the paintings of Sharon Kingston July 2-31st at Allied Arts of Whatcom County Opening Reception July 2 6pm to 10pm

On Tuesday I am delivering 16 paintings to Allied Arts for an exhibit titled “Interpretations”. I’m so excited to be showing my reading rilke paintings as a group along with the fabulous wire sculptures of Francie Allen. Francie and I both have studios in the Bay Street Village Building, but this is the first time our work will be shown together. All my unpeopled spaces enveloping and surrounding her life size figures, wow! Her works an interpretation of modern dance, mine of poetry. The wire making Francie’s figures transparent and ethereal: the layering of transparent paint and undefined edges and atmospheres suggesting the same in my pieces. I hope you all get a chance to see this exhibit and would love it if you made it to the opening.

 
 
 

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Source and technique have melded in my paintings in such a way that poetry, nature, color, light, mood and atmosphere are at one with my method of layering oil on canvas.  Void of visible brush stokes and seemingly lit from within, I have spent my career mastering my method and using the outer world as a shoreline to our inner longings.  My paintings, often paired with poetry that I am contemporaneously reading, offer an opening to the contemplation that accompanies those moments in nature where melancholic beauty quiets us.  Mimicry of an objective nature is less the goal than evoking the mood and atmospheres of our existence.  

In my recent paintings the sea and sky have taken on a larger and more energetic role, giving me the space to explore a loose yet structured mark making—just as the sea and sky themselves are both chaos and order.  I find inspiration in scrims; the veil of fog, the glare of sunlight on water, the quieting as night approaches and everything is reduced to shadow and light, the revealing of a well of color at dawn and the heaviness and energy of a storm.

I live in Bellingham and have a storefront studio in the downtown area.  I have been exhibiting my work professionally for the past 20 years.  My paintings are held in collections throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.

I have exhibited my work extensively in galleries and curated shows since 2008. I currently show my work at my storefront studio only--by choice-- and have no gallery affiliation at this time.  

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