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My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.
My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.
My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.
My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.
My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.
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Steven Page Prewitt

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Painting, Acrylic on Wood

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My intensions in the Superspeedway Series are to somehow convey the feelings of watching racing (cars, boats, motorcycles, cycling) in person. I am an avid NASCAR fan and have been to many venues including Daytona International Speedway. As a fan, and as an artist, the excitement, the colors, the anticipation, the speed,the danger, the beauty is almost too much to take. Every car is beautifully painted and brightly polished with corporate logos and paint schemes; every race team member wears matching, colorful fire suits and helmets. The 100,000 or so fans dress in brightly printed shirts and hats for their favorite teams. Flags, Soldiers, and First Responders are recognized and honored at the events. It is truly a sensory overload. In the composition of these paintings, I have contrasted bright, glossy, high key colors with bands of matte black painted over them. The bright, glossy colors represent the excitement, the thrill, the beauty, the cars and teams. The matte black bands represent the fear, the danger, the dirt and grime of the racing itself. The shapes of the matte black bands change as the drama changes. A favorite quote from a favorite artist, Richard Diebenkorn, is "there is nothing I cannot paint over". In other words, no part of the painting is so precious it has to be preserved for the finish. The process of making is a constant reaction to the previous brush strokes. The process of making the Superspeedway Series involves painting and over-painting and covering-up the bright, glossy colors with the matte black of the bands. Superspeedway I is painted on Artist Cradle Board. It is 1.5 inches deep. The sides are painted to match the front, so it will not need a frame.

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Size:24 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in

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I love art. I love making art. I love building. I look at art everyday even if I don't have time to make it. I love painting; I love drawing and mark making, print making, and construction. I love layers. I live for pentimenti. I love art history. Like Matthew in the Bible traces the genealogy of Jesus back to the beginning of man, I trace my "lineage" of art back to Manet, Monet and Cezanne. Van Gogh. Matisse. Mondrian and Kandinsky. de Stael. Motherwell, Newman and Hoffman. Rothko, Kline and Pollock. Hopper and Avery. Diebenkorn. Johns. Stella. Dunlap. Reedy. Gusterson, Simons, Burridge and Brown. I have their pictures and quotes on my studio walls. I hope I would make them proud and make art worthy of their influences. For me and my journey, it is very important to know and understand the who, what, when, why, and how these Modern Art Masters created. My personal, intimate experience of mixing colors, stretching canvases, framing prints, holding brushes, or charcoal, or graphite, or scissors is built upon my passion for the Modern Masters and my teacher/mentors. The foundation they laid for me is at the core of my language/ style/ approach to making art. Like Motherwell stated, I work in series because a good thought usually cannot be communicated in just one picture. Artists need a language. Artists build our own language- one mark, one painting at a time. Contemporary. Direct and reactive, spontaneous- yet- intentional. Overlapping and over-painting. Heavy-handed and manly describes my artistic personality. My style and application of my mediums (acrylics, oils, inks, graphite, collage, charcoal, watercolor) is more like a framing carpenter than a master furniture maker. I always build in layers of medium. Under-painting, mark-making, paint, sometimes collage, sometimes mono printing. More paint, more marks and so on.

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