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Artist Statement:
As an artist I want to accomplish a direct relationship with every viewer with imagery from the past. However, if one viewer can relate to an experience in their life, I feel I have accomplished what art should accomplish. Weather it’s a certain number or letter, a piece of cloth, found objects colorful or not, magazine clippings, old paper with text, or simply anything that triggers, inspires, and develops the mind.
I consider myself a painter, who employs mixed media and collage techniques. I use mixed media and collage to trigger and pin point a certain event or memory that the viewer can directly relate to. I feel that there are just some things that paint cannot accomplish; therefore, collage needs to be present in my work. I use collage to set up a certain mood or feeling that deals with history, memories, politics, and sometimes straight up propaganda.
I manipulate paint with heat from an electric gun, which will toss the paint around randomly to create a texture on the canvas you almost have to touch. Other ways that I get texture is from a “push broom” technique, created form a large quantity of paint, usually from a ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
UNDERGRADUATE ART SHOWS:
HOLIDAY ART EXIBITION 2004--UW Superior, Kruk Gallery
Works Submitted: Infested, Jaded, Shades of Grey, and 1982(all recieved honors)
HOLIDAY ART EXIBITION 2005--UW Superior, Kruk Gallery
Works Submitted: Three Stages of Sorrow (best of show). Dream Sequence Number One, Oleander-Green Foreplay, and Blood on ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Please contact me via email if you have any requests for a commission. I am always open for ideas, for a low price:)
"David Zachary" was a commissioned work. Under pencil drawings.
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Galleries for Scott G. Checkalski:
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Kruk Gallery, UW-Superior, Superior, Wisconsin.
3rd Floor Gallery, UW-Superior, Superior, Wisconsin.
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