AHHHH IM NOT AN LCAD BLOGGER BUT I LIKE THIS BLOGSPOT.. I need to get that header taken offf.

I have new work that we be posted hopefully very soon

Wes Christensen, an LCAD teacher  is going to be  showing with fellow Koplin Del Rio Gallery artist Marina Moevs at the Santa Monica College Gallery.  The show runs from August 30th to October 6th. Wes will be showing 42 paintings, dating back to 1981.

It’s easily said that Wes has been the most influential teacher I have had at LCAD, his class has been more than watercolor techniques, his passion for narratives allows him to explore and share slides of  art history, film, and everything else that has inspired him. Our assignments ranged from photo realistic paintings to games like exquisite corpses.

(Artist Statement)

The “issues” surrounding figure painting, and representational art in general, are created by people who don’t do it. My main concern is to communicate clearly to anyone who wants to look, and to invite viewers to interact with the imagery, to engage in a sort of imaginative conversation. The illusionist technique needed to create this fictive environment is important, but it must not be a distraction if I hope to succeed. In the English tradition of the “conversation piece,” I try to make illustrations for stories not yet written.

The novelist Rachel Ingalls has a character say, “What he really wanted was a book that played to him like a tune.” She must have had someone like me in mind, since my goal is similar: to paint the visual equivalent of the song you can’t get out of your head—pictures that walk out of the gallery with you when you leave. The best representational artwork relies on the viewer whose response completes them. This engagement is filled with the resonant loose ends that make paint poetic. The best of these images remain in the mind’s eye and reassert themselves of their own volition, which is the most lingering feature of fine figurative painting:

That silent afterimage that choreographs our dreams,

By attaching faces and bodies onto our thoughts,

Making them simple, concrete and timeless.

Wes Christensen, “Figurative Painting,” Artweek, June 1996

In Laguna the first thursday of every month there is an artwalk. the new LCAD Gallery 793 (my old studio) is displaying a summer exhibition of student work. The show had so much work submitted and accepted that they had to split the show up into two shows one in july and the other in august.

Next week Thursday I will be showing two of the larger pieces of my Senior Portfolio.

we stopped by the Hurley store to see Jeff Peters show

cant beat cheap CLEAAAN tattoos.

I got Eggs and Bacon with an overly patriotic slogan

Megan got Shelly our turtle-

And my friends David and Alex got matching Tattoos of the Studio Ghibli logo

I just returned from a short trip to Vegas for a my cousins highschool graduation and babyshower.highschool graduate and soon to be mom.

It was nice to see my family and gamble a little.

I actually came home with some winnings, enough to get my bike fixed and get some new brushes and a sketchbook.

My flight got in at LAX pretty earlier so Megan and I thought we’d check out the new Graffiti Exhibit at the Geffen…

…and then we realized it was closed.

So we got lunch and drove around the industrials looking for graffiti.

found some..

The school had a photographer take hi-resolution photos of some our senior work.

“Parade One”
40×48
Acrylic, Ink and Collage on Paper

“Parade Two”
25.5×30
Acrylic,Watercolor, SprayPaint and Collage on Paper

Graduation just recently passed and I also caught MFA Faculty Kent William’s opening Convergence.

www.kentwilliams.com