The Orange Amphora. This vase hovers between decoration, anthromorphism and a vegetative quality that revels in the irony of still life: that no life is truly still or inert.

Brown Ivy emphasizes a decomposing symmetry that is rarely appreciated in floral displays
that are left untended. Yet, in this artist's eye, that aspect of a loosening radial and bilateral symmetry offers a subtlety that can be a worthy exploration of art.

Posed Ewer

 

 

 

Blue glove posing a ewer. The still life expresses the leaf texturing that hints at old leaves, but also offers an abstract fruit with red rim palate work and a free application of yellow. The blue berries represent a more realistic fruit possibility for this fantasy, some of which fruit has fallen over the well of the vase and the back of the glove.

Art Resume

for William R. Laws III
      916 451-9518
      5819 12th Av.
      Sacramento, CA  95820

Purpose: Artist seeks gallery collaboration. Desired show contract for new line of
                appealing still life paintings. Seeking team of curators to collaboratively
                build a strategic artistic and marketing point-of-view.



Education:  Independent Study, Mexican Muralists. Ibero-Americana U. 
                  MA English, California State University 1976
                  Ph.D. study (Dissertation incomplete) U.C. Davis. Ethnography in Education. 2001

Shows:     Water colors and pastels of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
                 Elizabath Attard, Branch Supervisor. Sacramento Public Library
 
                 Eclectic Showing.  Marco Fuoco Gallery  Sept. 2010          
                10 of artist's collages shown.
                Jennifer Jacobsen Gallery Director
                6764 Folsom Blvd.
                Sacramento, CA 95820

               The Writer's Brush, a display of art created by writers. Jan. 2010
               Jennifer Pickering, curator
               Sacramento Poetry Center
               2600 R. St. Sacraento  95816

              Spring Art Show, Guenoc Winery, Middletown CA.   May 2008
              Bobby Wallace, Coordinator
              Artist showed a series of his human figure drawings.

Glass Vase With Daisies. Along with the truth or unambiguousness of the bright vase
are the fanciful images that sport color. These images include the floral suggestions but
also the baubles that in their two-tone blue, connect that single effect of the still life with the swirling background blue.

Shadows on Split Vase.  The red asterisks provide a buoyancy to this acrylic still life. In my perspective, any surrealism in subject welcomes a simple, lightly manipulated elaboration. The hint at  floral bouquet characterizes the canon.

The Ties That Bind

Families are made of ties that resemble
tangled chromosomes but yet which
are starkly different. Using Japanese Gampi  paper I have tried to imagine these ties as forged from to "anvil" shapes inverted and wrapped in pathways that only suggest organic material but depart from it as well.