VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Printmaking, Monotype on Paper
Size: 18 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in
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Image 11 x 15 inches "The shadow is the frightening aspect of your experience in life, which gets projected onto people. It's the 'you' that you are refusing to admit. It has terrifying, threatening qualities, but it also embodies goals, desires that you have not allowed to come into your life." So said Joseph Campbell in a lecture on the psyche. I just now happened to be listening back to this old DVD, Campbell's first lecture in the Mythos series, and it fits this image perfectly. You may not like this 'shadow,' says Campbell, but you envy him for doing things that 'you' wouldn't dare to do. In the animation I did of this image - which was inspired by a scene in the movie "The Scapegoat," adapted from the novel by Daphne du Maurier - 'you' are watching this from an upstairs window, and when your shadow approaches, you command him to "Step away from the woman! You're under arrest for indecent exposure." You look up and say, "Hey, fuck off," and continue on after the woman. (Watch it here: www.warrencriswell.com/video-mfwdw.html) But remember, there can be no shadow without light. MONOTYPES My inspiration for this medium comes from the great monotypes of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglioni (the inventor of the technique), Degas and William Merrit Chase. Like them, I use a basically subtractive method, meaning that the plate is rolled up with printer's ink and the design wiped and scraped out with rags, sticks, fingers, whatever. I do mine on linoleum (instead of the usual copper or plexiglass) and print them on my etching press.
Printmaking:Monotype on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1
Size:18 W x 14 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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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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