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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Our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber has been printing posters in her basement for protest rallies and marches. “I feel responsible to stand up for my friends who are Black and my friends who are Brown, since I white-pass so easily, but am not white.” Nikki has been active in the social, political, and art in …
“I paint both abstractions and figurative works. I make no distinctions, because what I am thinking of is space, light, and form.” [image_with_animation image_url=”5766″ alignment=”” animation=”None”] “There is no subject, no object, only a single truth, which encompasses everything and exists in nothing. Earlier paintings involve bowls stacked up on other bowls that fill the …
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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