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CJ Hurley 2011
CJ Hurley, Painter “Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams: Dates: August 5 - October 8, 2011Opening Reception, Friday August 5, 6pm-8pm
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“Houses, Landscapes, Flowers, & Dreams” is an exhibition of drawings, paintings and poetry. The poems and art unite in an interactive & symbiotic relationship; the poems enhancing the art and the art giving visual substance to words. Many of the paintings have companion drawings of the same image demonstrating how vastly different the mood of an image can be by merely changing the medium.
Nature is the inspiration for this collection of words and images and urges people to view our environment differently. CJ’s goal was, “to create a substantial body of work that evokes some sort of neo-romantic sentiment regarding nature and humanity’s place in it”.
Artist Statement:
“Experiencing nature, landscape, and the built and natural environments that surround us has the power to transform our being. But truly the most powerful part of the experience is our personal interpretation of it. The artist’s responsibility is to interpret the world, not merely to document it; to imprint the stamp of their own experience upon everything they create, and therefore make every subject they tackle new and fresh through their conception. Real magic comes when a viewer encounters the art and makes their own deduction of the artist’s conception.”
Two Special Events free and open to the public!
Held in conjunction with a Professional Development Grant
by the Regional Arts and Culture Council
Poetry Reading - Saturday, September 17th 11am
Join us for a riveting visual and auditory experience as visiting author, S. Alexander Smith, performs a dramatic reading of the poetry CJ Hurley wrote to accompany his paintings for Houses, Landscapes, Flowers & Dreams.
Doors will open for viewing the art at 10:30am. Reading begins at 11am.
This will be an interactive and engaging reading, that will make you look at the art in a whole new way. We expect the event to last about an hour. CJ & Susan will be present to answer questions and talk to attendees after the performance.
Lecture and Artist Talk - Romanticism: Its legacy
and connection to the art of CJ Hurley
Thursday, September 29th 6pm
In his presentation, CJ will discuss the Romantic Movement including Art, Poetry and Fiction. He will offer his insight into Romanticism’s continuing presence in the modern world. CJ sees Romantic thought as an essential part of being human and has a special regard for Romanticism’s position regarding nature. This is a topic he often explores in his art and he will be relating these themes to the work on exhibit.