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Art Exhibit - Ted Fontaine - "Road Trip" - 5/8 - 6/9

The present body of work represents a renewed interest in painting. Due to some health problems in 2002 I all but gave it up, however in 2007 my desire to return to painting overcame any negative feelings I had about the pursuit. The subject of the paintings, which appear to be cars and houses in a western landscape is the result of my impulse to paint and was the simplest subject the rose from the depths of imagination and memory. The shapes derived from the play of memory are there to support the formal elements rather than the other way around, where composition, value, texture, form, space and shape are there to carry the picture. The interaction of the paint is more important to me than the subject. The subject serves the process. Any illusion is secondary.

Road Trip 1

I am not negating the subject matter; I still have a strong interest inI am painting with visual memory as a guide. The subject matter comes from spending time observing the world behind the wheel of an automobile especially in the western US with its mixture of mountains and flat plane and expansive openness. The receptive, common objects seen on the road pass by quickly. I am trying to capture the feel of the visual road experience, ie. road trip. I chose cars, houses, shopping carts, out buildings, utility poles and the odd looking micro wave towers disguised as trees because they are icons of our culture and possibly a remnant of postmodernism which appears to me to be coming to a close.

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