beauty in the Strange SERIES

Directly inspired by 'Alma Alma' (Dream) from Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedűvel by György Ligeti (on poems by Sándor Weöres). 

Fifth movement:  Alma Alma [Tizenkettedik Szimfonia]  ( Dream [Twelfth Symphony] )

Poem by Sándor Weöres.

(Hungarian)

alma agon

alma ring az agon

alma ring a

lombos agon

ring a ring a

barna agon

ringva

ringa-ringatozva

inga

hinta

palinta

alma alma

elme alma alma

almodj alszol?

mozdulatlan lengedezve

hus szelben arnyban

alom agon

agak alma

ringva

ringa-ringatozva

ingadozva

imbolyogva

itt egyhelyben elhajozik

indiaba afrikaba holdvilagba

almodj

alma alszol? 

(translation)

An apple on the branch

an apple swings on the branch

an apple swings

on the leafy branch

swings-swings

on the brown branch

swinging

rocking

pendulum

swing (hinta)

palinta

a dream of an apple

the mind's dream an apple

dream dream?

motionlessly swinging

in the cool wind in the shadows

dream

on the branch

dream of the branches

swinging

rocking

swaying

staying in this spot it casts off

to India to Africa to the moonlight

dream

-apple, are you sleeping? 

Series: Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange                                        

Year: 2020

Dimensions: 

12" x 12" x 1-13/16"

30 x 30 x 5 cm

Media: Mixed

Surface: Canvas, Gallery Wrapped

Exhibitions: ---

Awards:  ---

Series: Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange  

Year: 2018

Dimensions: 

12" x 12" x 1-13/16"

30 x 30 x 5 cm

Media: Mixed

Surface: Canvas, Gallery Wrapped

Exhibitions: 

2019: The 38th Annual TAG Spring Show, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC 

Awards:

2019: Honorable Mention   

The 38th Annual TAG Spring Show 

Juror: Ed Rice

Juror's Notes:   

Ed Rice: "Could be an under-water scene, nature, growing organic, fabulous colors you might see in coral or flowers; nature can be beautiful, powerful, and menacing, I like the variety of deep colors. The piece is a good evocation of nature."

(private collection)

Series:  Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange 

Year: 2018

Dimensions: 

12" x 12" x 1-13/16"

30 x 30 x 5 cm

Media: Mixed

Surface: Canvas, Gallery Wrapped

Exhibitions: 

2019: The 9th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC 

Awards:

2019: Best of Show, The 9th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Dorothy Netherland 

Juror's Notes:   

Dorothy Netherland: "The inventiveness of this piece amazed and delighted me. The creative process and the use of media, as well as the craftsmanship and composition, are so well done. There is a real engagement with the materials here, with plenty of space for this work to evolve even further over time. That's a good place to be as an artist. I would love to see more of these with different colors, shapes, sizes and placement, and on different scales. This piece makes me think about so much possible content - the repetitive shapes could reference floral, underwater, otherworldly, mutating, or purely imaginative forms. For me they evoke potentially contradicting forces; possibly nature reclaiming the world, or disease, or the beauty of a utopian landscape, or as a metaphor for adaptation and inevitable change, among other things. They look both beautiful and unsettling, and I love the way they extend out of the space, as well as the choice of placement of color and form."

Series:  Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange 

Year: 2020

Dimensions: 

12" x 12" x 1-13/16"

30 x 30 x 5 cm

Media: Mixed

Surface: Canvas, Gallery Wrapped

Exhibitions: 

2020: The 10th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC 

Awards:

2020: Merit Award, The 10th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Wim Roefs

Juror's Notes:   

Wim Roefs: "Frankie Wolf's Sidhe Ring is not just dizzying, although it is that, but also inventive and different; that has merit."

Series: Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange                                                                                                                           

Year: 2021  

Dimensions: 

12" x 12" x 1-13/16" 

30 x 30 x 5 cm 

Media: Mixed  

Surface: Open Frame   

Exhibitions:

2022: 26th Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 

The National Art Center, Tokyo                                                                                                                                                       

 Awards:  ---

Series: Shadowbox Anomalous: Beauty in the Strange   

Year: 2022    

Dimensions:  

20" x 20" x 1-13/16"  

50 x 50 x 5 cm   

Media: Mixed   

Surface: Canvas, Gallery Wrapped     

Exhibitions: 

2022: The 12th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, New Gallery, West Columbia, SC   

Awards:

2022: Third Place, The 12th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Mark Anderson

Juror's Notes:   

Mark Anderson: "I found the unusual extruded additive ceramic forms intriguing and the color was reminiscent of deep-sea, fluorescing coral reefs. While I wonder whether more varied and variegated surfaces, colors, and forms in the supporting plane would deepen the references of the piece, I have to say I do appreciate the gloss underlying plane as a contract to the more matte 3-D forms. I also wonder how this would look as a tondo (round shape) instead of a rectangle, but, in the end, it stays on my mind, which is a good thing."