For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations:
night window the following night, 9.7.16,9:50pm
‘your cities do not exist. perhaps they have never existed’
italo calvino
night window with calvino’s cities again, 9.6.16, 9:50pm
papers, tape, projected light, glass
same window, a change in light, 5:54pm, 9.6.16
day window, 9.6.16, 5:33pm
day window, western sky, 9.5.16, 7:00 pm
night window with a glimpse of broad street in a puddle
paper, tape, projected light,9.5.16,9:45pm
night window for a new month, 9.3.16, 11:30pm
papers, tape, projected light, glass
‘not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself’
wallace stevens
window with paper and tape, early summer
night window in late august, sea birds asleep on a beach
papers, the window sill, reflected light.
night window in bleached light, the premonitions of laocoon on the beach.
papers, tape, reflected light. late august.
corner of a night window: landscape in late august after a lot of heat
papers, tape, projected light, the window
night window with paper towels and tape
7.28.16, 11:45pm
The League is turning three years old. I am proud to say we are growing and thriving both as a school, and as a community of artists. We are an art school of collected individuals, an art school where no one creates artwork in the same way, and every artist has a story. This diversity …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10600″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484-86). Tempera on canvas, 67.9 in × 109.6 in We’ve all seen Botticelli’s Birth of Venus until we could just about throw up. But have you ever noticed the feet? I hadn’t noticed them until recently, now that I’m preparing to teach …
Yankee Doodle The paintings are credited to Archibald Willard. Color and composition versions, oddly varied, are the contributions of the internets. The original (dutch) nonsense words to “our” Yankee Doodle song: Yanker, didel, doodle down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke viver, voover vown, Botermilk und tanther. From Wikipedia:The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early seventeenth century[7] and is thought …
While I was searching for rabbits yesterday I found a rabbit by Lucian Freud, and this Sleeping Cat. I’d seen neither of these before, and thought they were sweet. So unrecognizable as Freuds! Both were made in 1944, when Freud was 22. [image_with_animation image_url=”8842″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8829″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Stuart Shils Window Collages (Part 3)
For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations:
night window the following night, 9.7.16,9:50pm
‘your cities do not exist. perhaps they have never existed’
italo calvino
night window with calvino’s cities again, 9.6.16, 9:50pm
papers, tape, projected light, glass
same window, a change in light, 5:54pm, 9.6.16
day window, 9.6.16, 5:33pm
day window, western sky, 9.5.16, 7:00 pm
night window with a glimpse of broad street in a puddle
paper, tape, projected light,9.5.16,9:45pm
night window for a new month, 9.3.16, 11:30pm
papers, tape, projected light, glass
‘not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself’
wallace stevens
window with paper and tape, early summer
night window in late august, sea birds asleep on a beach
papers, the window sill, reflected light.
night window in bleached light, the premonitions of laocoon on the beach.
papers, tape, reflected light. late august.
corner of a night window: landscape in late august after a lot of heat
papers, tape, projected light, the window
night window with paper towels and tape
7.28.16, 11:45pm
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