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guy colwell

Our destruction of the planet is made worse by our unconsciousness. This ability to filter out the ugliness we perpetrate has been an historical and deplorable fact for as long as humans have been casting aside their waste. But things may be changing. If we returned to the times before bottle deposits and recycling took profusions of glass and plastic litter off the streets and beaches, our minds might reel in shock at the messes we used to accept as normal and inevitable. Hopefully oil spills, acid rain, dying forests, disappearing polar ice and accelerated extinctions will finally awaken us to our inescapable role as stewards and caregivers to the Earth.

"the Ebola treatment centre"

View of show through Main Gallery looking into Surrealist Gallery and Hall of Drawings.

“…ambition machines…”
“…Wyeth-like sophistication…”
“…captures nightmarish contradictions…”
“…no one comes away unscathed…”
“…in the tradition of Goya…”
“…dazzling, challenging, epic in scale…”
“…poignant and memorable…”
“…penetrating and accusing…”
“…haunting…”
“…politically charged…”
“…vibrant depictions of people and animals…”
“…incisive and important…”
“…veteran aesthetic practitioner…”
“…repeated viewing is recommended…”
“…true to his artistic and political calling…”
“…provocative…”
“…levity and relevance…”
“…this painting will live in history…”
“…socially conscious…”
“…gravitas dressed in bright colors…”
“…powerful statements against violence…”
“…colorful and abrasive…”
“…densely-peopled tableau of dramatically-pregnant life scenes…”
“…crisp and steely-serious social commentary…”
“…a modern Brueghal…”
“…some of the finest American art…”
“…a master…owe it to yourself to see…”
“…a prickly heat power one does not forget quickly…”
“…distinctive and unsettling vision…”
“…a steely hardness beneath saccharine prettiness…”
“…an edge of nastiness…”
“…a peoples’ artist…”
“…there flows a kind of stoic faith in humanity…”

There is a reward for digging deeply to find information about this show. You get to know the secret that this “solo show” is actually a 1 inch = 1 foot scale model of a major exhibition. I do this to satisfy a need to hang a show in the absence of any significant interest by the commercial galleries in my work. If you know any way this exhibition can be made a reality, please let me know. For more information, click on any image for a link to the artist web site.