Rural Reverie
Location
CSU Ballroom
Start Date
21-4-2014 2:00 PM
End Date
21-4-2014 3:30 PM
Student's Major
Art
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Brian Frink
Mentor's Email Address
brian.frink@mnsu.edu
Mentor's Department
Art
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
I create paintings that examine the human ego and memory. My work is a metaphor for awareness. I am currently working on paintings that bring the viewer into a space where they experience a transformative state of mind and reach higher levels of consciousness. I am highly influenced by nature and landscapes. I am interested in combining many mediums together and painting subject matter on top of layers depicting the rural landscape in a unique way. My goal is to represent landscapes and abstract pieces in a different way than we normal perceive it. I have been creating paintings that involve many different techniques and processes involved in the conception of the work. In the past I have painted many landscapes from photographs that I have taken but my concept for Rural Reverie is painting subjects in the landscape in a more representational way. The landscape becomes more of a plane of consciousness. Photography is still a powerful tool that helps me hone my interests into subject matters that I paint. I paint less from photographs but more from memory of photos that I have taken. I am interested in urban, rural buildings and manmade decay.
Rural Reverie
CSU Ballroom
I create paintings that examine the human ego and memory. My work is a metaphor for awareness. I am currently working on paintings that bring the viewer into a space where they experience a transformative state of mind and reach higher levels of consciousness. I am highly influenced by nature and landscapes. I am interested in combining many mediums together and painting subject matter on top of layers depicting the rural landscape in a unique way. My goal is to represent landscapes and abstract pieces in a different way than we normal perceive it. I have been creating paintings that involve many different techniques and processes involved in the conception of the work. In the past I have painted many landscapes from photographs that I have taken but my concept for Rural Reverie is painting subjects in the landscape in a more representational way. The landscape becomes more of a plane of consciousness. Photography is still a powerful tool that helps me hone my interests into subject matters that I paint. I paint less from photographs but more from memory of photos that I have taken. I am interested in urban, rural buildings and manmade decay.
Recommended Citation
Zarecky, Weston. "Rural Reverie." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 21, 2014.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2014/poster_session_B/59
