South
Spotlight Artist
Cary Loving
South
Artist Statement
My work involves overlapping combinations of media. Photo transfer and paint are combined with clay, and photographs are transferred, screenprinted, or collaged into paintings. I welcome the expressive possibilities of not limiting myself to a single medium. As well, I work loosely to encourage unplanned, intuitive outcomes. Nature for me is a frequent source of imagery, lessons, and metaphors. A recurrent theme in my work is the memento mori. Evident in all of nature are alerts to the transitory: the constancy of the struggle to survive, the attempts at renewal, and the inevitable endings.
Sometimes the landscape images I make are places of poignancy and poetry, with muted colors and lyricism. In this current series, Calling, the opposite happens when a sense of urgency requires intensity of colors and boldness of shapes. The starkness of bare trees is contrasted with a fulsome botanical on a stalk that observes, points, or emits a siren call across the vista, with a sense of warning. My work says: We need to pay attention.
Sometimes the landscape images I make are places of poignancy and poetry, with muted colors and lyricism. In this current series, Calling, the opposite happens when a sense of urgency requires intensity of colors and boldness of shapes. The starkness of bare trees is contrasted with a fulsome botanical on a stalk that observes, points, or emits a siren call across the vista, with a sense of warning. My work says: We need to pay attention.
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