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Artist Exhibitions:
I have paintings on
exhibit in the "C.S. Lewis
Festival Juried Fine Art
Exhibition" at the Crooked
Tree Arts Center in Petoskey,
Michigan Nov. 9 - Dec. 1,
2007.
I have a solo exhibit of
recent work at "One Trick
Pony" 136 E. Fulton St. Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Nov. 5...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for William Alexander
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I want my work to be immediate and fresh, never final but new with each encounter. I strive to create art that is viewed as an experience or a journey...seeing, waiting, doubting, discovering, creating, destroying, opening, closing, starting, ending.
I am drawn to art that can be interpreted differently by each viewer and interpreted anew with each viewing. I strive to create art that possesses these qualities, which would explain why most of my recent work is considered "abstract" or "non-representational".
The discipline to free an image from conventional expectations without surrendering the emotional drama of the human spirit will always be my pursuit. For me, the challenge of painting is to penetrate and break through inherent preconceived expectations of art which may stifle the personality, or the spirit, and to present a fresh new way of "seeing".
In the process of creating, my art is sometimes transformed incrementally, from realistic or representational subject matter to an expressionistic or emotional image as I progress. At other times I may approach an empty canvas with the intention of bypassing any "subject matter", pursuing a more random expression.
Throughout the years my art has gone through many phases from realism and portraiture to more abstract concepts, allowing the observer, by looking at my work, to become a "co-creator" of it.
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