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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 Galleries:
Kruk Gallery, UW-Superior,
Superior, Wisconsin.
3rd Floor Gallery,
UW-Superior, Superior,
Wisconsin....
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Artist Reviews:
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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.
racer64jr@yahoo.com...
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Artist Statement for Scott G. Checkalski
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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 big puddle.
Texture to me is one of the most important things I want to accomplish in my work. A viewer needs to see, and feel depth in a composition. The work I produce will often appear three dimensional, which creates an even greater stature to the message I want to put across. I crave texture simply because it adds a more complex mood to the subject matter. If the message is strong enough, I will use a great amount of texture or a build up of paint to cast a “shadow” upon it. If I cannot accomplish that with texture, or chose not to, I will with the color of the paint.
I look for the simplest way to connect to the viewer. The completion of any of my compositions is just one way to remind the viewer how small we are in this world. The messages I bring forth cannot be neglected. Each work is created to remind ourselves how certain events have changed our lives, and to help us from repeating it.
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