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News
July
09, 2008
Earl Schofield - New Paintings
June 26 - August 02, 2008
by Corinne Joy Brown
Courtesy of daniael.com
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New work by New Hampshire artist Earl Schofield draws viewers to the Michele Mosko Fine Art Gallery in the Golden Triangle with a visually rich collection of works in encaustic, a hot wax medium. Comprised primarily of images of trucks and atmospheric landscapes, Schofield achieves what few oil painters spend lifetimes striving to attain: a brilliant degree of transparency and luminosity which lend his paintings a solid three-dimensional quality.
A master of the medium, Schofield creates his own paints, combing Old Holland pigments with melted wax. He applies varying degrees of colors with an assortment of brushes, scraping tools, and even a blowtorch. Because hot wax has but a few seconds before it cools to a stabile surface, his work has to be sure, precise and calculated since he has to work extremely fast. In a gallery talk June 28th, Schofield explained, “I’m always painting. I teach full-time at the Dublin School in New Hampshire, a private facility, and in between classes I return to my studio to continue painting in twenty or forty minute segments. Meanwhile, the process continues uninterrupted in my head, no matter what I’m doing.”
For anyone unfamiliar with encaustic (its history traces back to Egypt and the Middle Ages ) this is the perfect opportunity to see it in a remarkable new way. Abstract painters have made the medium popular, an approach where random effect is acceptable. By contrast, Schofield’s work, especially the Truck Series, is comprised of many exacting layers, then further refined to appear almost like an urban relic. He achieves his final distressed and pock-marked effect, (with surfaces riddled with wear and bullet holes) by shooting at the canvases with a shotgun. The added texture and punctuation add a realistic and urban quality that’s unachievable any other way.
If you go, don’t miss the painting of babies/angels in the small gallery space to the left of the entry, figures with glowing skin and 3-d modeling real enough to touch. For serious collectors, this show is a must.
Images from top are:
Little Rig
Big Rig with Red Mixer
Cotton Sky
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Source Link: More information
Associated Exhibitions
- Earl Schofield - New Paintings
June
26 -
August
09 2008
Opening reception on June 26
Gallery reception on Friday, July 25 from 6-8pm
- A Closer Look at Earl Schofield
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Michele Mosko Fine Art exhibits limited edition prints by international artists John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Christo, Lesley Dill, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Donald Sultan, Huang Yan and others. Also featuring contemporary photographers Jill Greenberg, Bob Kolbrener, Amalie R. Rothschild, Steven Schkolne, Martin H.M. Schreiber.136 West 12th Avenue, Denver CO 80204 | T: 303-534-5433 All rights reserved 2008 |
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