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GENESIS RISING _ 2021-2022_ Oil on Canvas_ 30 x 15 inches * 

(The Original left panel of a larger painting titled Theodora and The Homeland*) 

 

About this painting ~

GENESIS RISING  was a ‘template' for THEODORA AND THE HOMELAND and would have served as its Left Panel. But 

GENESIS RISING didn't feel as if it belonged in the finished piece,  so I separated it from the other panels when the remainder

of  THEODORA AND THE HOMELAND was shipped to Japan in 2022.  There,  Theodora And The Homeland won a high honor by receiving a Museum Award at the XXI International Japan Art Exhibition held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and subsequently was acquired by Katsu Shimmin,  Curator of the Exhibition for Japan.  It is now a part of the Permanent Museum Collection in Japan. The painting is pictured in the Catalog of that Exhibition and may be shown in China as part of that Permanent Collection.  GENESIS RISING is all that remains of this work in the USA.  The other panels are also an homage to freedom. To me that is what this series of paintings, including GENESIS RISING,  is all about! 

 

I spent another six months detailing the design elements of the sky and working on the sculptural elements (as a test for another work, SAOIRSE'S GARRADH).   GENESIS RISING  stands on its own though & is a watershed moment in the evolution of ‘sculptural expressionism' as the various elements worked without the addition of any outside substrate to keep the lavender flowers tall and support the weight of the bumblebee keeping him afloat in three-dimensions.  I used a hollow-core oil medium stent for the first time.

 

I hope GENESIS RISING delights children and sparks a lifetime interest in the arts for Generations to come!  If it does that, well then indeed, mission accomplished! 

 

 

Provenance:

July 8-28, 2023:   "SPECIMEN" Juried Art Show at Gallery 825,  Los Angeles Art Association,  Juror Kassandra Voyagis    

 

OPENING:     July 8, 2023  ~ 10:00am to 5:00pm

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* Dimensions listed (30x15”) are the unframed dimensions (A custom Gold floating frame has recently been added.)