Matthew Curry is our next featured artist and he already has many drawings on display in Poulsbo. Matthew's imaginative work will be on display through August. These wonderful rendered drawings have a little Picasso, a little Dali, and a whole lot of Curry! For those of you who don't know Matthew, he has an electric personality...fully charged and ready to go. I think it is very evident in his drawings as well. Matthew's bio is toward the end of this post.
"History Of Warsaw", photo by Harry Longstreet
While some may move easy into retirement, Harry Longstreet has forged ahead into new territory. After twenty-five years of working in television & film, he has turned his attention to his longtime passion for fine art photography. Since August 2005, his work has been accepted into more than ninety national juried exhibitions and his first one-man-show was held at the Roby–King Gallery in February 2006.
Throughout the ‘80s and into the early ‘90s, Longstreet logged countless hours as a writer/producer/director on network and cable television. Today, it is the storytelling that comes through in his work with great strength. Viewing Longstreet's photographs, one becomes a fly on the wall, watching the story unfold from a distance. A winner of numerous awards for his photographs, Longstreet recently received Color Magazine's Single Image Merit Award (February Issue) for the striking image above: "The History Of Warsaw".
"Calligraphy", photo by John Wood
John Wood says, "I take great pleasure in discovering beauty in the "ordinary world," a curtain, an old desk, a piece of abandoned metal, a lampshade. A phrase I read many years ago in an article about a coffee shop in Vienna stays with me: "this little place dignifies the ordinary." These photographs were not taken in a distant, exotic desert or a remote mountain range but close to home. They are views of things we see every day."
Wood's photographs are detailed examinations of objects most people would not notice; a rusting piece of sheet metal, a deteriorating piece of wood, the glow of reflectors off a group of chained up bikes. Wood paints with his camera, capturing the color and structure that reinforce one another. Above is a poetic piece from the show, entitled " Calligraphy"
"Narcisus", drawing by Matthew X Curry
Matthew X. Curry studied at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York. His architectural training informs all areas of his 20+ year, multi-faceted career including architectural interiors, furniture design, as well as fine art drawings, woodwork and sculpture.
During an invaluable year living in Prague, Matthew focused upon his fine art. He self-published a book of his drawings and co-hosted a USC seminar on International Land Use. Matthew has had the good fortune to practice in diverse arenas including yacht interiors, legal/investment firms, celebrity offices, screening rooms, restaurants and nightclubs. His residential projects have ranged from 150 to 26,000 square feet. Matthew’s work has appeared in several periodicals, galleries on both coasts and on TV/Cable with a feature on HGTV’s “Generation Renovation,” on several HBO programs and in films.
Artist’s Statement
My drawings are meant to evoke a sort of 4th dimension connecting emotive, physical, spiritual and intellectual worlds perhaps yet unknown but perceived through the medium of art and imagination.
The imagery comes from many places all fusing together - like fusion jazz actually! I've always been interested in a kind of malleable time, underlying laws of nature and geometry, entropy (1st law of physics...) and the intensity of how certain things like music feel, and then, how to convey those feelings. It all began on sabbatical in Prague in 1998. Fully intending to develop a line of furniture, I became immersed in a strange and wonderful place with 1000 years of extant history and imagery. In such a heady place, I had the luxury to allow my joy of drawing and all my artistic ideas stew-on paper!
These “unstill life” drawings suggest suspended moments in an illusory and elusive process of change, a passage of physical and metaphysical generation or degeneration.
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