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You And Me Baby Artwork

Kurt Dahlke

United States

Mixed Media, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 24 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in

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This abstract expressionist piece of art is wild and free, chaotic but somehow holding together, somewhat sculptural, like bas-relief. It's on relatively thin plywood, cradled by sturdy pine, and framed in hemlock lattice. It is strung with wire for hanging, and is securely on my wall as of now, hung on sheetrock with one nail, which may or may not be in a stud, so hanging it is easy and carefree. This piece is almost entirely reactionary, each element responding to earlier elements. When colors seemed too strong, I tamed them with applications of white paint. The idea was to create balance from chaos, but in this case, a relationship formed between the two white ovals and interloping orange divide. They exist in opposition to the tan, earthy areas to each side. In process, I apply a layer of joint compound to a panel of wood, sculpting it with a palette knife while still wet. After a day, the joint compound is dry, and I either start making marks with clear acrylic medium, (which forms a hidden resist that dictates later marks) or with graphite, or both. As the days continue, colors are added, which the joint compound absorbs and changes. Each step requires patience to wait for the colors to dry. This allows me way too much time to deliberate about what happens next. The work is consistently pushed past the 'beauty point' and wrestled back.

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Mixed Media:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in

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Making art has always been a compulsion, one in which I have found some facility. I knew that an 'artist' was who I was probably as early as age 4 or 5, though I didn't head back to school to complete my art degree until 2001. I prefer abstraction, though I draw inspiration primarily from atmospheric phenomena, oblique light, and empty landscapes. I take pleasure in the tension created between where I hope a painting will go and where it leads me. Systematic methods and rules form the backbone of my pieces. Materials go down mostly in a certain order, I keep my toolkit of media and my palette deliberately small. I like how these constraints force the dialog between the marks and my intent to remain focused. Though my intent is deliberate, the elements of composition that result always suggest new directions I may follow, retreat from, and revisit. But pure composition needs an emotional component. As I work I’m exploring what it means to suffer in life, to have a broken childhood, to struggle with addiction and self-doubt. Like many artists, I make music foundational to my practice. The rhythms and moods influence the marks I make as much as a thunderstorm or cirrus cloud. You’ll often find a song title or snippet of a lyric suffices as the name of one of my pieces.

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