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Artist Exhibitions:
GROUP SHOWS:
“Pushing the Envelope”
Acrylic Visions/San Francisco
City College 4/97
Gallery at the International
School of Art. Monte Castello,
Italy 6/97
Focus Gallery San Francisco,
1/98-2/98 First painter ever
invited to show at this fine
art photo gallery's year end
retrospective
International ...
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Artist Statement for Bill Warren
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In the process of discovering my artistic vocabulary, I have always attempted to follow the visions that come into my mind/thoughts…...I paint from the inside out. I have come to the realization that for better or worse these visions are who I am. I embrace staggering personal change and always try to turn my fears and self-doubts into new movements and compositions. Nature has always showed me all sorts of wondrous things. Is this enough? Things change. I no longer create what I envision by myself, having reached a juncture in my life that I search not only nature, but also the camaraderie of my fellow artists and human beings in order to achieve my visions.
My current work in 2006 are titled “Matmos” They are small works on Paper.
I try to make them my dance partners….They lead, I attempt to follow. They are about movement…Musical scales and notation. Percussion….
I think they are a prelude to work on a much bigger scale. Prototypes perhaps?
My past series "Ghosts of My Father" arose from my experience of being raised in a home tainted by the specter of mccarthyism, and of my fathers role in the New York theater.
I used actual WPA documents from his plays that I have downloaded and scanned from the library of Congress website creating collages from those actual and digitized images. I consider these pieces to be "Wallscapes" and although it is new work, it feels like they are older than me.
In my work I am always reacting to the omnipresent clashing of two worlds (and, or view points). Old vs. new/ rough vs. smooth/ foundation and empire stuff (to borrow from Isaac Asimov) etc...Again I feel this partly comes about as a reaction to my fathers blacklisting and the effect it had on me as a child and now as a mature artist. It was a big time clash of two worlds. I also draw upon the influence of my musical and culinary background in achieving my artistic vision.
Rhythm and flavor have always served as my guides, and I in turn have always tried to be a good passenger.
I cannot fathom any path that does not stem from creation.
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