Artist Information:
Lee Roswell
San Francisco, CA
United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
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Artist Statement:
You all know the Shakespearian
line, "nothing will come of
nothing," right? A seemingly
simple line really. "Nothing
will come of nothing." Sure!
This is King Lear's response
to his loving daughter,
Cordelia's refusal to voice
her love for her father for
the sake of topping her
sisters' ridiculously
competitive praises.
But in this first scene of the
play, Lear is greatly mistaken
in his math. This plot-driving
miscalculation Shakespeare
emphasises by a negation of
status, reducing the old king
to a Fool's fool. A great deal
comes about from that first
"nothing." A wake of human
drama, disinheritance,
deception and seduction, greed
and revenge, madness, and
death lies within those pages
as proof. So, "nothing will
come of nothing" has an
alchemical
esotery to it.
To me, this makes a fine
analogy for the tradition of
painting. In painting you have
a canvas, or panel, or
whatever surface you are
working with… the side of a
beached whale, whatever it
might be. From the point of
visual intrigue or physiology,
nothing. Then the painter
takes his pigments and their
respective vehicles, his
tools, his brushes, and
through a process of eye to
hand prowess he ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2008...
-Stills Are Still Moving,
Gallery Three, San Francisco,
CA
-The Red Dot Fair (curated by
Justin Giarla) NYC
-Mugshots, Acident Gallery
Eureka, CA
-New Brow (curated by Justin
Giarla) Monterey, CA
2007...
-A Minute and an Hour (group
show), Fool's Foundation,
Sacramento, CA
-Chillin's 9th Anniversary
Party, ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Lee Roswell's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Lee Roswell's Portfolio.
You all know the Shakespearian line, "nothing will come of nothing," right? A seemingly simple line really. "Nothing will come of nothing." Sure! This is King Lear's response to his loving daughter, Cordelia's refusal to voice her love for her father for the sake of topping her sisters' ridiculously competitive praises.
But in this first scene of the play, Lear is greatly mistaken in his math. This plot-driving miscalculation Shakespeare emphasises by a negation of status, reducing the old king to a Fool's fool. A great deal comes about from that first "nothing." A wake of human drama, disinheritance, deception and seduction, greed and revenge, madness, and death lies within those pages as proof. So, "nothing will come of nothing" has an alchemical
esotery to it.
To me, this makes a fine analogy for the tradition of painting. In painting you have a canvas, or panel, or whatever surface you are working with… the side of a beached whale, whatever it might be. From the point of visual intrigue or physiology, nothing. Then the painter takes his pigments and their respective vehicles, his tools, his brushes, and through a process of eye to hand prowess he ... |
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