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Artist Statement:
The Ocean Series is a
Remodernist response to the
color-field paintings of Mark
Rothko.
The central theme in my
painting is the search for
stillness, the sort of
profound and lucid calm that
is the result of meditation or
contemplation; another main
theme is the relationship
between humans, the ocean, and
the atmosphere. The intent of
my work is to create an
ambiance where the spiritual
dimension of this relationship
can be experienced.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Once in a while a commercial
gallery will invite me to do
an exhibition.
Solos include: Sarah
Rentschler Gallery, NYC, NY,
USA, 1980
Samadhi Gallery, San
Francisco, CA, USA 1982
Galleria Expressiva, San Jose,
COSTA RICA, 1987
Norro Gruppen Konstgallerie,
Stockholm, SWEDEN, 1991
Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL,
USA, 1994
Sekanina ...
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Artist Galleries:
I am no longer associated in
any way with SEKANINA; the
only reason it appears here is
because of a glitch in the
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Inquiries from galleries and
agents are welcome....
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Artist Reviews:
In the hour after the sun sets
into the sea, nature's palette
defies description. The names
of colors are simply
inadequate, so we resort to
metaphor, describing the sky
as moody, the light as
inspiring, the water as wary.
The artist Carson Collins
believes this is why the
emotional ...
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Carson Collins Biography:
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Age
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54
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Buddhist |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
art, science, travel, surf, meditation, Love |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Impressionism - (1865 - 1885)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Mark Rothko, Claude Monet
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Monet's water lillies series
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Remodernism. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
No choice. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I've been working on The Ocean Series for 30 years. I guess you could say that this conflation of a traditional marine sunset with a color-field painting, something that originally crossed my mind sometime back in 1978, has turned out to be a fairly fertile idea for me. Call it a Remodernist approach to the color-field tradition if you like, but I'm not trying to deconstruct anything, fit into any category, or prove any theories.
I'm nomadic, never stay in one place for more than a year or two; don't have any possessions except for what I can carry on the iron birds. So far I've lived in 7 of the USA States and 6 other countries. I prefer warm places, but anywhere with a left coast will do - for a while.
When I'm not painting I mostly spend the time walking or sitting on the beach, staring at the ocean. I meditate. I surf when I can. I take part-time work when its available; have had quite a variety of dead-end, no-brainer jobs, some of which I liked. I've got an MD degree from the University of Texas that I've chosen to ignore. You might also say that I have the equivalent of a PhD in 'coping'.
What did I was just sit and stare at the ocean for thousands of hours plus I surfed and went out on boats every chance I got. But the main thing was to sit and contemplate the ocean, I mean real mystical style contemplation in a trance state. And I made sketches, reams of pencil sketches on newsprint pads with circles and arrows and notes about the way the patterns on the water were formed and changed and the colors.
You or anyone could do the same thing it just requires a sort of monomania that most people don't have or want. I mean I literally spent my entire life
for this. But in the end I did manage to produce a few paintings that have the quality of something much loved and long remembered, and that's perhaps
what some people like you see in them. |
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