loose lips

acrylic on canvas jgasowski2014

say something

 

 

"red cross (for gaza)"

 

 

 

"Tesla"

self portrait

photo by jagasowski 2014 all rights reserved.

the plane the plane!

 

 



a window in time

acrylic, graphite on canvas

14x11 "

jgasowski 2014

 

 

 

 

not every mountain is climbed the same way

 

 

 

paintings: jgasowski 2014

circles in a square

                                                  paintings : jgasowski 2014
                                                                    acrylic/collage on canvas

collage and paint

Interiors and Exteriors

 

all works acrylic

 on canvas Jgasowski 2014

color forms

 untitled acrylic/collage on board 10x10" jgasowski2014

untitled acrylic/collage on board 13x11' jgasowski2014

untitled acrylic on board 13x11" jgasowski2014

scraping the surface

                                                     untitled
                                                     11x9"
                                                      acrylic on board 2014
                                                      jgasowski

drawing

the path

 

 

 

 

 

balancing space

'easter basket
24x24"
acrylic on canvas on board
 jgasowski2014



many mornings
24x24"
acrylic on canvas on board
jgasowski 2014

street signs

simple is as simple does

 

"speaking modernese"

acrylic in canvas 24x24

jgasowski2014

 

 

 

 

reporting for duty

posting the latest work...circles everywhere!

"weaving time" acrylic on canvas 16x14 2014 jgasowski

past/present

 

 

Sam Francis @ the Crocker Museum, Sacramento

Spent another afternoon looking at the artwork of Sam Francis, this time with my friend artist Elizabeth Smith, It was wonderful to hear her excited exclamations as we rounded the corner to see his paintings and then stood in front of each piece, " how exciting!" how beautiful!"... I got a chance to look closer again and enjoy the paint, the color,the process, to notice which paintings were done on large scale then edited down to stretcher size, which were painted flat on the ground "as-is",I loved the dirt and floor crust in his paint. I got to re-read in amazement how ill he was at the beginning (and end) of his career, attending his first museum exhibition in full body cast because of spinal tuberculosis, being wheeled around on a gurney to see the show, and later so sick with cancer unable to use but one arm to paint with (great thick puddles of color here). the show covered 50 years of art-making! (making me realize how short my time has been ).

here are a few images I (secretly ) took  (feel like James Kalm)-

a continuum

                                                                         "space/time"
                                                                     acrylic on canvas
                                                                              24x20   
                                                                       2014 jgasowski

Peddeling Artwalk

I was about to succumb to another sittin-in-front-of-the-computer watching-tv kinda night,when I remembered it was 2nd Saturday+ ARTWALK... so I got on my trusty 2 wheeler and headed out to downtown and my usual round of galleries. First off was 2110 K st  (21Ten Art Complex)., where I had my show a few months back... I enjoyed a few of the works from artist  DIANE RUHKALA BELL and the guitar playing of Michael Sean Miller....

 

 

 and found this underpainting in one of the studios, which i liked, and this wonderful surreal piece by De gonzalez :

 

 

 from there I cruised a bit and headed to coffee @ Pete's and a sandwich @ Mr. Pickles

(I still havent found that knockout Deli yet,, you know the one Im talking about)

 where i enjoyed some young street musicians who, for my dollar contribution,

played a punk waltz for me...

 

 while eating, I ran into artist friend Evan Thomas , and talked about his imminent relocation to the the bay area , I then headed over to RED DOT Gallery (2231 J st.) which functions as a hair salon on normal days and opens up for artshows on Artwalk, (the art stays up of course all month). This was my favorite art of the night.  Monoprints and painting by Tina Pressler (www.tinapressler.com)

 

 and this small painting:

 

 

 

 ( My sincere apology to those artists, whose names I didnt write down)....

 

and Im happy to report its that time again:  The crow migration!!

 

 

 

if your in the area, please look up and enjoy these galleries and the many more in sacramento!!

 

 

 

 

Klee's campout

                                                               
                                                                " Klee's Campout'
                                                              20x12  acrylic/collage
                                                (tissue,masking tape,paint skin on canvas)

jgasowski 2014
 

wonderful paint

                                                
                                       http://cueartfoundation.org/alfredo-gisholt

                    

Indian Space painters: David Finley Jr Gallery

http://www.davidfindlayjr.com/artist-page--howard-daum.html


I have always had an affinity with the paintings of these northwest artists, there is something structurally resonant in it for me , something I actually picked up in Kandinsky much earlier reading 'Point and Line to Plane": the 'touch' of the shape /form in relationship to another gives off a powerful emotive vibration. I can also point out the Sistine Chapel- the space between God's finger and Adam's:That minute space contains all the potential of life.
In this artwork the shallow (flat) space is(for me) about relationships, how one thing moves about without overlapping, and the succinct shapes are concrete presences of being.

 

Howard Daum
Red, White, Black
c. 1960
oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches

 

one two three

one new:                                               "somewhere unknown'
                                                              12x10" acrylic on canvas
                                                               2014 jgasowski

 

two revisited:

 

"redmask" 12x10

acrylic on canvas

 

 

 

"pinklady hashtag"

acrylic/collage on canvas

24x20