'Opening To Awe' Acrylic on Wood Panel 48 x 48 2008
UNIVERSAL PARALLELS
Paintings by VIBRATA CHROMODORIS
APR 7 - JUN 1
Mezzanine Gallery at Hotel Triton
342 Grant Ave (x. Bush St.) SF
My loyalty to painting is coupled with my delight for digital imaging, and one medium informs the other. My computer tools have become essential to my method of sketching a design, choosing colors and executing each piece. The ease with which I can create mathematically precise geometric shapes, mirror reflections and symmetrical iterations has deeply influenced my artistic voice. What's most essential to me is that I'm able to express my visions successfully - I use whatever tools the visions require.
Growing up in Canada, I was surrounded by the visually rich and powerful images of Northern Indigenous artists, full of stylized forms that vibrate with straightforward spirituality. These artists pay homage to the deep connection they feel with nature in their depictions of magical deities and mythological spirit animals, pulsating with colorful life-force energy. Eventually I found myself being drawn to the art of other indigenous cultures such as the ancient people of Australia and South America. The commonalities that inspire me are the expressions of awe at the beauty of the intangible; the act of creating art as a work of devotion; the ability of the artist to bring the unseen into visible form; and most unambiguously, the visceral potency of color.
Profound metaphors and dynamic images are triggered within me when I read the writings of cosmologists and theoretical physicists. The idea that we are nothing more or less than a dance of energetic potentialities is, to me, a palpable truth. This existential dance, like dancing to music, is at its heart, a tapestry of patterns and order. Our brains are pattern-recognition machines, as Michael Shermer calls them, organs that have evolved to look for and interpret patterns in our perceptions. It's how we learn and how we create meaning. This is the essential dialogue between what we believe ourselves to be and what we believe to be outside of ourselves.
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