Don Bracken: February 2015

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Solo Art Show at Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge , NY until March 1st

This is the way the show looks in the gallery going counter clockwise.

Fireflies in a grey Fog,a/c, 60'' x 46'', Frozen Moments #2

Wind Over Water #2, 80''x54'', Invasive Species, Frozen Moment #2

Forest Doors, Jade Memories, Wings Over Water 1&2

Frog Love #2, a/c,72''x72'', Frozen Moments #3

Nocturnal Frog Love, 60''x46'', Tutu, 40''x60'', Ancestors Shadows 1&2 40''x30''

Fall in Red, a/c, 50''x40''

Untitled hanging sculpture, Late Summer Evening, 40''x30''

Road Through Damascus 1&2, 40''x18'', acrylic and clay on canvas on panel

Sphere1, 24'' in diameter

Sphere 2, 24'' in diameter

I started a series of paintings , veiws from the Flood Plain , this last summer 2007. It was actually quite unpremeditated. I was plein air painting with acrylics on canvas out on farm in Weathersfield , Ct and I felt disconnected from the what I was doing , and like who needs a another idealized landscape . So out of frustration I started mixing the soil from the farm with acrylic medium and suddenly I felt this viseral connection with the land . I had a realiztion that this land probably would be populated with MacMansions and a strip mall if this farm wasn't in the flood plain . I listen to books on tape while I work , many of these paintings were done while listening to books like The Omnivores Dilema , Grapes of Wrath . .. many of the paintings in this series were done on location using the dirt from the farm and they reflect my growing awareness about the direction of the American agricutural industrial complex . These paintings are from my show in 2008 at New Arts Gallery .