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Artist Statement:
All life in the universe
vibrates, creating frequencies
and harmonics that reverberate
throughout the universe. Each
planet and system of stars and
planets has a different
signature according to its
status in the evolutionary
pattern.
Like children of different
ages with different needs, for
the most part we remain in ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
COMING UP! 2008, November
1-December 2, The Southern
Vermont Arts Center,
Manchester, Vermont - new
sculpture & drawings
2006 Southern Vermont Arts
Center, Manchester, Vermont
2003 Solaris Gallery,
Califon, New Jersey
1998-2003, 1994, 1992, The
Well of Stars, Lake Elmore,
Vermont
1998, 1997, 1993, 1990 The
Red Mill ...
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Artist Galleries:
The Well of Stars, Lake
Elmore, Vermont
Solaris Gallery, Califon, New
Jersey
Southern Vermont Art Center,
Manchester, Vermont
SPA Gallery, Barre, Vermont
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Dominic Koval Biography:
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Dominic has been painting and drawing for as long as he can remember. Brought up on farms in Massachusetts and in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, he spent much time as a child alone with the land and its creatures, and became closely attuned to the harmonies between inner and outer nature, the resonance and rhythms of light, color and mental state. His lively imagination and affinity with nonhuman life forms has expressed itself in stories, poetry, sculpture and graphic work as well as in painting
Residing for many years in Milton, Massachusetts, Dominic established an etching studio there and helped launch the Boston Bronze Foundry. He worked in monotype, woodcut and pastel as well as in oil and acrylic, and exhibited regularly at The Nasrudin Gallery in Boston, The Voyagers and the Paul Schuster Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Vermont in 1985. Recurrent themes already included gardens and gardeners, blind men with flowers, the alliances between humans and wild creatures, and an ongoing dialogue with trees and light.
In Vermont Dominic has focused largely on landscape, both observed and imagined, in his paintings. Long walks in the woods in search of wild mushrooms heightened his sensitivity to the subtleties of microcosm and macrocosm, and his love affair with the dawn light in the mountains surprised even himself by evolving into an extended series of visionary waterfall paintings. His carved relief sculptures in black walnut, applewood and poplar body forth extraordinary beings in association with lions, leopards, owls, butterflies and the plant world, and recently he has embarked on a series of pencil drawings which combine delicacy of execution with an unexpected blend of poetry, precision and whimsy.
Dominic is not much inclined to discuss interpretations of his work. "Why do you ask me to explain in words what I’m doing in paint?" he wonders. " It does not translate. It’s like being used to peonies, and then seeing a daisy. The temptation is to try to find a way to...peony it." Besides, he cautions, any successful work of art is an active experience, ever expanding and contracting in accordance with the surroundings and perceptions of the viewer. |
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