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Artist Statement for Spence Munsinger
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Sunsets:
acrylic on canvas painted impasto and brush over airbrush, 24" x 30" x 1.5" gallery-wrapped
A series of 22 paintings. There is no moment of more intense color and beauty, so completely ephemeral - it won't last and that instance that is ultimate, that changes and it's gone.
With SUNSETS I am synthesizing that moment. These are the experience of a sunset - you come up over the hill, and you see a moment of sunset, you feel an inner awe at the color and the intensity, you try to hold time still, to grab for the camera, to hold it in your mind. The sun sinks and the light changes and that supreme aesthetic, that moment you found resonant is gone.
In that moment of trying to hold and encompass, you widen the senses, to grab the panorama. Instead of concentrating on the colors and center and light over the ocean, you widen your attention and focus. The sunset is clear, but you also try to hold the periphery - road, sand, sidewalk, trees, silhouettes of buildings, the bright light cascading across, the color tinges from the experience. All of that.
If I painted photographically, the scene would look crystal clear. You would see the clarity of each item or the calculated blur. Take a photograph of a sunset - it will remind you of the memory of that, but it won't do more than suggest the experience.
That moment of focus, of seeing the center and widening your awareness and consciousness to try and include the whole scene and experience and memory - that's what these are.
Urban Abandoned - after series:
A series of 22 paintings beginning with urban architecture and archeology - abandoned subway stations, power plants, houses, factories. From that starting point the painting goes abstract and less defined, shooting for that sense of time passed and gone that this kind of abandonment of place communicates
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