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Artist Exhibitions:
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For new animeSTILLLIFE work
follow the vimeo link
For special curated selections
see
- a changing series of new,
right-now hybrid impressions @
Celesteprize.com
- a collection of still life
interiors @ Artrom Gallery
- an evolution of work @ MOCA
Virtual Museum's Open Gallery
- a range of recent work up
for assessment...
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Artist Galleries:
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WILL DISCUSS/SEEKING GALLERY
REPRESENTATION -
exhibition proposal available
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Currently represented by:
- House of Hedone
Auckland NZ
- Lopdell House Gallery & Shop
Titirangi, Auckland NZ
- Artrom Gallery
Rome IT
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Previous associations:
- Compose Art
Auckland NZ
- Ferner Galleries City
Auckland NZ
- Portfolio Gallery
Auckland NZ
- Martin Zambito Fine Art
Seattle, WA US
- Woodards...
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Artist Reviews:
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MORE COMING - check back
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44) Oct 2011...Don Archer,
MOCA: Museum of Computer Art -
co-founder/director, NY -
"...an interesting and
unusual image..." -- email
response to 'Salon 1'
submission - October 22
43) Apr 2011...Carol Priamo,
multi-media artist/designer,
academic - University of
Toronto CA -
Ò...Congratulations!ÊThis
is good news...
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Collections:
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PUBLIC/CORPORATE
- Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
NZ
- Polly Pratt, Auckland NZ
- westSMART LTD, Auckland NZ
- Popsmart LTD, N Shore City
NZ
- Waitakere City Council NZ
- Auckland City Council NZ
PRIVATE (selected list)
- Richard & Sue Brooks
- Richard Swanson, Cincinnati,
OH US
- Wendy Smith, Auckland NZ
- Ann & John Adams, Toronto
CA
- Simon...
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Commissions:
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PopSmart Ltd, North Shore
City, NZ - 2004; 2001
westSMART, Enterprise
Waitakere, Waitakere City, NZ
2003
Enterprise Waitakere,
Waitakere City, NZ - 1995
Auckland City Council,
Auckland City, NZ - 1984/5
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Artist Statement for Clay Bodvin
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Hybrid Memories
Tracking the self and retracing the usable-past, to develop new visual narratives, reveals an important thread of discourse. To wit, consider portraiture; consider the still life. Potent social commentary in the 1600s and late 1800s. People stylishly depicted in their personal spaces; the luxurious nature of their everyday things around them.
Heading into the 20th Century this work artfully recorded a fragmenting society through fractured faces, disintegrating objects and dis-assembled spaces. But still beautifully rendered with dramatic colors and patterns.
At the same time, a culture of aesthetic-redaction commenced questioning the nature of art. An inquiry mutating over time into an art of non-realities. Detached from any aesthetic concerns, this art of concept also de-stabilized the relationship between truth and fiction.
To wit, consider conceptual art as censorship - the inherent censoring of aesthetics. Fast forward to now. Self-contained identities grow boundless. The indulgence of self a global activity. Spaces people occupy, and their personae, morph at will from one style-construct to another.
The familiar objects that populate our lives cease to be concrete. While luxury articulates the new consumer standard. All this results in a dis-connect from the aesthetic pleasures that fulfill us. And, meanwhile, the tyranny of concept still overrides creative output at the expense of artistic appreciation.
In addressing this aesthetic disregard, my work reconnects with those historical cultural-weavings through that relationship of portraiture to still life. In new combinings of human and possession, extracts from my usable past (and present) are merged with virtual interior-spaces.
The images, supported by some of my luxurious everyday-things, rematerialize aspects of my lived experience - demonstrating that memories are both actual and artificial. As well as producing new socio-cultural recordings that encourage pleasure-in-viewing.
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A photomedia painting may be made up of one or more of the following
- digital photomontage
- inkjet print on paper/canvas
- hand-cut assembly; collage/marouflage on panels
- mixed media hand-work over
- found objects, eg, wood frame & glass.
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