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“Absolute: Memory” Painting Completes Micro Series

RailRoads, Burial Mounds, & Paintings

by Daric Gill  

What’s your sacred place? Where do you go to contemplate?

Open FieldIf you’re at all familiar with my blog, you’ve no doubt gotten to know me a little. I’m the type of person who likes to venture out on little day-trips to get into the right mental spot. Building a little bit of happiness ‘to go’ into my workday is crucial for my creative process. Especially during the warmer seasons. The pursuit of the right materials and thinking spaces for the latest two “Absolute” paintings has taken me on a  journey that has spanned through woods, over miles of railroad tracks, into an apparently abandoned man-made prairie, and even atop of a 2,000 year old Adena Native American burial mound.  Read onward to see the whole process.

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“Absolute: Opinion” Painting Debuts

New! “Absolute : Opinion” Painting

By Daric Gill

Sketching usually comes first for me. Hours are spent drawing out different ideas and different scenarios regarding how the next pieces should look. Then I select the appropriate piece of wood from my library to use as the canvas if you will. I enjoy this process and am generally pretty good at getting out my ideas this way. Occasionally, a piece of wood will come across my table saw and I’ll know that it’s the starting point instead. This time, the wood panel came first.

After a few days of ideation and not coming up with anything, I realized that I was drawing out plenty of stellar future paintings… but I couldn’t quite figure out this piece. And you know what, that’s not a bad thing. Read on to learn why.

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New Haven, CT Welcomes “Absolute” Paintings.

“Absolute” Paintings At The Reynolds Fine Art Gallery, CT

Absolute: Torn
Absolute: Torn: oil on panel. 15 1/2″ x 18 1/8″. 5.24.11.

Four of the “Absolute” paintings have recently been shipped off to the Reynolds Fine Art Gallery located in the beautiful city of New Haven, CT. “The Art of Trompe L’oeil” is an exhibition of artwork that creates illusions of three-dimensionality with two-dimensional space. The gallery is just a short walking distance from the prestigious Yale University, the New Haven Green, and the New Haven Harbor. Read on for more information.

Show Dates: March 31st – April 30th

Reception: April 4th, 5-8pm

“Absolutes & Complements” At Schnormeier Gallery

Press Release For February Show

I’m pleased to announce that the “Absolutes & Complements” suite of paintings will be at the Schnormeier Gallery this month. With over 20 paintings in this exhibition, this marks the largest selection of the “Absolute” suite ever amassed into one show. Among the work on display will be the debut of “Absolute: Pitch”, the largest private piece I’ve ever created. Visitors will also get to see the fun and whimsical work of Craig Hill in an adjacent gallery room. For more information, continue reading.

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