Artists Represented by
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Reformatting the Still Life
Photomedia paintings of
Clay Bodvin
July 1 - 10, 2008 - Teramo, Italy |
ARTROM Gallery is honored to have been asked by the New Zealand Embassy in Rome to represent them at the Festival in Teramo, in the visual arts section with the participation of a solo exhibition of works by artist Clay Bodvin.
This will be the Fourth Edition of a festival which interweaves sports and culture, bringing together young and old from every part of the world. The idea and theme focusing on a message of peace, tolerance and the desire to be open and share these ten days together. The consequence revealing the ease in which people are capable of creating friendships and a true desire to discover cultures other than their own. A wonderful result!
ARTROM Gallery will curate the exhibition, 'Reformatting the Still Life' with fourteen works, 60 x 60cm from three different series in which Clay Bodvin developed his 'photomedia painting' techniques. Bodvin's ornate 'rooms' have something precious and inviting about them. Rich, dense saturated primary colors serve a precise function; to model and exalt the objects presented, to enhance and justify them. Bodvin uses a collage approach of decorative motifs, at times of different scale, that is very effective in achieving "environment"; not of a specific space, but a sense of place that is almost tangible.
His master obviously Matisse, and he learned his lessons well; the ornamental rhythmical lines of contrasting tints are a direct homage to the Fauvist painter. Bodvin's force is composition and he chooses an organizational harmony of objects and the sensations they evoke, beyond perspective |
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Clay Bodvin
Artist Clay Bodvin was born in Seattle, USA but has been living and painting in New Zealand for over thirty years. Coming from a creative position in advertising and marketing, this artist has always been open to discovery and research of various techniques of communication.
Experience in traditional drawing and painting, and subsequent exposure to still life, has created a continuing fascination and investigation into this genre. Bodvin’s intention is to illustrate a sense of ongoing creative duality and cultural displacement while protraying a moment of circumstance in a constructed environment, ie, still life.
With the evolving digital technologies Bodvin has created a new media for himself called ‘photomedia paintings’. His last completely hand-executed painting exhibition was in 1998 with subsequent work evidencing a varying mixture of hand intervention over digitally created and printed material.
During the last few years Bodvin’s celebrated series of still life “Rooms” has created quite a stir in the artistic environment of New Zealand. In an extensive article in the New Zealand LISTENER, Elizabeth Smither writes, “A visual feast is constantly being rearranged in front of us, so that we are invited to examine, looking for structure, harmony, symbiosis, ultimately the human condition. This is what makes Clay Bodvin’s still lifes so rewarding”.
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Prices:
All photomedia paintings:
inkjet print, 65 X 60cm on
460 gsm Photo Rag Paper
€ 325,00 euro plus shipping |
All artworks presented here
are available through
ARTROM Gallery
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Also available: limited editions of 12, 30 X 21cm, €20,00 euro
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Still Life Room I
2006 |
Redux VIII
2006 |
Redux I
2006 |
Still Life Landscape II
2006
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