VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 18 H x 2 D in
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I don't know, so don't ask. After several months with no new images, only a few reincarnations of old ones, so that I was really beginning to accept that the muse had left me for good, this is what she brought me. I was in the upstairs bathroom filling my watering can for my tomatoes' afternoon drink, when my eyes suddenly focused on the bottom of the sink, where fallen drops of water from the faucet were reflecting the overhead light in strange ways. Something I had never seen before! Just when I thought I had seen everything worth seeing and there was nothing more to discover and therefore nothing more to paint. When I started to draw it, I saw the spiral curling into the drain. The dead bug seemed to animate it all somehow, but I had no clue to what, if anything, it might mean as an image. So that night I dreamed of another painting. "Again, Mr. Benny?!" This one also had some kind of sink in it, but in the foreground was a landscape, a highway, the kind of thing I've painted way too many times, but this looked different somehow. But when I tried to sketch it the next day, I realized it was the same image! So I started painting. I didn't even know what the title would be. But a desperate artist doesn't question the muse. You just paint the damn thing. "Only one thing in art is valid - that which cannot be explained." Marcel Duchamp (However, if you want a deep reading of this image - an explanation of the unexplainable - by a well informed viewer, check this out: http://warrencriswell.com/lindas_takes_a_shot.html)
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 18 H x 2 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.
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