Hangers oil on masonite 8x10
This is one of three paintings I'm doing for our "Heavy/Light: Exploring a Dichotomy" show that is opening a the Adele Grage Community Center on Feb. 4th. I haven't really dealt much with concept art, so this was something fairly new. For this one, I was racking my brain for an idea that fit our theme: Heavy/Light. I wanted to work with a subject matter that itself was either heavy or light, but whose presence signified the opposite. In this case it was bare hangers. They themselves are light, but what they symbolize to me is loss or absence - be it former tenants of a forclosed home who took everything except for a few dangling hangers or perhaps a significant other that is no longer in the picture. Also, these paintings allowed me to experiment with a color mixing technique I hadn't used that made for some nice variation in the grays, I think. So far I haven't come up with a title I like, but that'll come.