current show

[evaldart]

Been doin the do at a local gallery. Me and the and the Landinoman made for an odd pair (youtube him). A good time for all.http://www.nashawannuckgallery.com/lost_and_found.html

I have nine pieces in the show, all small except for a seven footer. A walk in the park install. The f350 was annoyed...wasting her time.

[GlennT]

Good thing they posted a link to your website, because that small piece of yours featured does not begin to tell the story of evaldart. Looks like robot droppings.:D Can't tell from the pictures if they are there, but in a backyard studio photo that you posted a while back,you had a bunch of relatively small pieces that were quite a bit more alive that looked more like small versions or maquettes of what you are about.

[evaldart]

Yer right Glenn, small venues have always been tough for me. But I have amassed a significant group of abstract "studies" that I feel will hold their own. "Robot droppings" Theres my show title:D.

In the business of visual "presence" I do enjoy getting the job done with mass, wieght and aggressive line. So its a challenge to take this approach. I will be pursuing more of these smaller opportunities to feed this.

besides, theres something very agreeable to my general philosophy about getting a piece done in a single "session". There a purity in that spontanaity and immediacy that I dont get from the extended labor of the large ones (plus, indoors you dont have to compete with the damned trees).

[outsider]

Eval, did you find that hunk of rebar or did you twist it up like that? A side from, "hey look at that wad of metal" and "bet it was tough bending it like that", whats the point? Do you ever put any meaning in the work?

[evaldart]

My handiwork on that 1 1/2 in rebar. I always manipulate the junk (not just compose and assemble). THAT is the meaning. Its an unrequired act, a detached human event, a piece of extra-necessary. Often, in the pursuit of meaning, decisions get made that pander only to utility, usefulness and function...stuff that is always already happening all the time anyway; secong-rating the event. Art, as an exceptional undertaking, neednt bother with all that. In fact, Art is the ONLY thing that is allowed to ignore usefulness (which, in turn, makes it the most "useful" thing possible). Anyhow, these are my current concerns. But is suppose I could whack a burglar on the head with it...might prove more useful that way.:D

[outsider]

So that's a no, right?

[evaldart]

maybe for you...but thats no concern of mine.

[cheesepaws]

Eval, did you find that hunk of rebar or did you twist it up like that? A side from, "hey look at that wad of metal" and "bet it was tough bending it like that", whats the point? Do you ever put any meaning in the work?

Often the "meaning" in a work is not placed by the creator but brought by the viewer - which can be a much more difficult challenge if you don't want to influence them too much.

[evaldart]

right Chees, I cant imagine having to try to lead or predict the effectiveness (or lack there of) with the Art. "Jobs" make everyone do that all the time. The "pleasing" and "satisfying of others is all we do amongst our civilized others...in the name of food, shelter, (for us and for those in our charge) and amusement.

It happens now and again that people make connections to what I have done, sometimes they even buy it from me (so I can then pay for dental work and a new lawn mower). I'm afraid to encourage those connections on the "finest of the fine". Something must remain "sacred".

[ironman]

maybe for you...but thats no concern of mine.
Eval, That's it in a nutshell.
My sentiments exactly.
Have a great day,
Jeff

[suburbanartists]

Yeah Matt, I saw your show in the Valley Arts newsletter. Any more pics out there?

[evaldart]

another current show . Recent Flatties. Local gallery.

[grommet]

so tell me, what is the symbolism of the recurring french fry or fry theme?

[evaldart]

The yellow slash of the frenchy fry will be my bridge to abstract painting...when I'm ready. Abstract sculpture is easy to get to because the extra dimension provides the "thingness". There are always damned illusions in painting, things that you can wrap your wise-assed brain around but not your hands. The pile of french fries implicates texture, mass, and all the diagonals activate the surface nicely. One day you will see "Yellow Abstraction # 1" and you will know the story, and you will know that ol Evaldart made it to the next level.

[grommet]

and here I thought it was just that all encompassing hunger.

[outsider]

Eval....
This is why your sculpture doesn't have any meaning beyond the material. You are splitting your psyche. Half is going to painting and half, or less than half, is going to the sculpture! What are you? I feel betrayed! I thought all this time I was conversing with a sculptor. If you can't pack one bag then don't make the trip!

[jOe~]

This is why your sculpture doesn't have any meaning beyond the material. You are splitting your psyche. Half is going to painting and half, or less than half, is going to the sculpture! What are you? I feel betrayed! I thought all this time I was conversing with a sculptor. You are conversing with an artist. The medium and loyality is secondary.

If you can't pack one bag then don't make the trip! Who needs baggage? Good work Eval.

[evaldart]

O, any time you wanna meet in the boneyard and have a metal mangling contest. I'm ready

If there anything I cant stand about art thinking its the "you must do THIS, just THIS and do it til you die". Screw that. As an individual enthusiastically in servitude of the creative impulse, I'll do whatever the hell I feel like doing...it'll mean something to me for sure. We've all got quiet moments...cant keep up the physical intensity REQUIRED by real sculpture for too long. One must have respite, refueling and some calm. Painting is an allowance I make for the noggin,(who never wants to stop). And there are other things that get done too in the interest of such intellectual appeasement. You've got your conspiracies and your diagnosises; I've got tubes of paint, distortion pedals and cheeseburgers.

In the mean time...the bursts of sculpture command my existence and proliferate my world (and yours). I continue to displace air-space daily. Watch where you walk, I'll soon reach the midwest and displace some air there. You might bump your head on the knee of a scrap-metal robot. As you're getting the scalp stitched the "meaning" will come to you "Eureka! Now I know what ol Evaldart is all about".

[StevenW]

You're way beyond ready for abstraction and perhaps I've finally come to realize that the completely non-objective is the last and final plunge, the bottom of the well.. The beyond abstract.. Where abstraction itself no longer has any significance..

She's trying so hard with the flowers.. I'm so sorry about Tank.. :(

Jeez, the first one is just killing me..

[evaldart]

Pardon the melodrama. The problem with figuration is that it reeks of narrative. Said narrative information may be recollected, celebrated, exaggerated, fictioned or tailored to accomodate the matter that we manipulate. I dont work from life (scribbled sketches at the most) I work from memory. Likenesses, still-lifes and stories are there for the springboard; but neednt matter beyond that. Once you're up in the air, THATS when its go-time.

[StevenW]

Narrative has come to have negative connotations only since the sterilized, palette cleansed, desensitized nature of the Freudian analyst came to light. Psychology changed the way this world does and shows for better or worse,.. perhaps the latter, perhaps not.. I'm of the opinion-though that it is a terrible thing to separate oneself and his/her narrative from an art and art for art's sake alone is no better than a one-sided love affair. The images roll way back to the distance and it is not so melodramatic nor elizabethan to suppose there can be more than one kind of depth..

[GlennT]

Art without narrative, would be what? Objects without a story, other than the evidence of an artist having fabricated an object? ( which becomes its own narrative)

I don't know why elininating narrative would be preferred to art with narrative. Are we not communicating something of value from our own experience or insight through art?

And then, even if an object could be made without an effort to have narrative associated with it, the viewer may find one anyways. A rock on the ground to one person is an object of no interest. To another, it is a record of geological history millions of years old. And yet another sees a whole world of color, form, vibration, pattern, chemicals, and density within the rock. And to David, it is a device with which to vanquish Goliath.

[grommet]

maybe narrative limits creativity in that you may then have to separate truth from fiction for folks

Like a good joke/ story it grows with the retelling. I keep reminding myself that when I talk to my brother-in-law. The veracity is questionable, but without the embellishment, the story wouldn't be as good. So you enjoy the ride...:)

[evaldart]

some shots from the sculpture show.

[GlennT]

Looks like a much better array than the 'robot droppings" piece the brochure featured would have led one to expect.

[grommet]

I like the ominous third hand creeping into that last photo.
dang, they look all civilized hanging out in a gallery like that. must be the penetrol night cream and dusting.

[jOe~]

Well dammit Eval. I'm gonna scold you again for not taking more and better photos. In fact, this time I'm anointing you with my infamous "thump on the noggin" that so far I've only blessed Glenn with.

[grhb]

That rebar ain't no abstract anything--youze been eatin' toxic fiddleheads again E, the Evalixir of life, and forgot the origin.

Here's the original, an elephant fern from the bot gardens in Singapore--it's a great town:D

[StevenW]

#24 pic 2 little corkscrew on the bottom right.. Damn nice.

[suburbanartists]

Well dammit Eval. I'm gonna scold you again for not taking more and better photos. In fact, this time I'm anointing you with my infamous "thump on the noggin" that so far I've only blessed Glenn with.

Got to agree. I know you are not into shooting pics, but just try at least to get down to the level of your piece when you take your pics. Looks like with all of them you are standing up straight and looking down at them. This almost always looks bad. Or give your camera to your kid. I'll bet you $100 his pics will be better. Good stuf though (from what we can sort of see.)

[jOe~]

My main concern about the photos is I want more of them. I want to see the work. I like the work. A lot. I want to see it or I feel cheated.

[rika]

I've been wondering about that little guy or thing on the other end of the room on the second picture. Any closeups?

[Aaron Schroeder]

Does Steel Reserve comes in Bottles ?

[evaldart]

http://www.thewavemagazine.com/images/articles/7001-8000/7395.jpgoh yes. 40's baby

[grommet]

hey evaldart, it looks like you might have a bladder infection.:rolleyes:

[evaldart]

some new studies and wips to fill the gaps left by the gallery show. All to be completed soon.

[grommet]

I'm thinking you could probably out-mangle anyone...
maybe except for the girl down the street who would play with my daughter's toys; I think you're neck & neck. Your product is aesthetically pleasing though.

[jOe~]

Like Wow!

[rderr.com]

Like Wow!

In the second photo--THAT TREE???????????????

Robert

[evaldart]

In the second photo--THAT TREE???????????????

Robert

Yes, that is one impressive busted-off trunk. Its twenty feet high, Pisses me off constantlty as it is one visually commanding thing fighting with the Art all the time. One day I'll get the nerve to commandeer its mass... "improve" it (Evaldart aint afraid of Nature). Clad it in steel perhaps or hammer a thousand spikes into it (St Sebastian).

[suburbanartists]

In the second photo--THAT TREE???????????????

Robert

What a great nature stand for the birds to chill on while deciding which bit of mangaled steel gets pooed on today. (Have a few of my own in the back here.)

[StevenW]

Yes, that is one impressive busted-off trunk. Its twenty feet high, Pisses me off constantlty as it is one visually commanding thing fighting with the Art all the time. One day I'll get the nerve to commandeer its mass... "improve" it (Evaldart aint afraid of Nature). Clad it in steel perhaps or hammer a thousand spikes into it (St Sebastian).


No need for it to piss you off, it doesn't hold a candle to anything you MADE back there.. It's just an uncarved totem pole is all or a porch swing yet to be made.