S W O O N D: saturday fare: dan gualdoni

3.13.2010

saturday fare: dan gualdoni

The imagery from Dan Gualdoni's body of work, Coast Redux, examines vast, ethereal, invented environments along the sea. Rocks rising from fog, clouds floating in the atmosphere, light captured in translucent layers of color all fuse to create a mysterious sense of place. By layering the surface with thin skins of paint and by varying the positions of the horizon line in the composition, Gualdoni is able to produce paintings that “hover between pure abstraction and natural realism.”

Gualdoni will participate in the upcoming Invitational #1, opening April 22 at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts.

:work from dan gualdoni's coast redux will be on view april 22 - may 22 at kathryn markel fine arts in chelsea;
posted by diana murphy

the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

- w. b. yeats

sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

- tom robbins

the same dream returned each night until i dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. i dreamed i had a child, and even in the dream i saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and i ran away. but it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. until i thought, if i could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps i could sleep. and i bent to its broken face, and it was horrible . . . but i kissed it. i think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.

- arthur miller, after the fall

YIN AND JUNG

who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside, awakes.

everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

when we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. we wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. but to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

- carl jung, the stages of life