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Thursday, June 19, 2008
This summer is full of talk.
So we are in full swing of summer and I spend my time inside at the studio, painting. The larger canvases I have been working
on have been quite liberating. The freedom I have to move around my work has opened up new possibilities, it seems the scale
of my work has met the subject matter. While working on these larger canvases, visually they consume me. Only when I kick
back in my office chair and roll across the studio do I get a good look. So here is what has been happening. Instead of just
focusing on the relationship of people i am now looking at the relationship of people within their environment, I know, you're
saying: Wow, how can you possibly do that Eddie? Well the vast white areas are more vast and the crowds of characters are
even more crowded for one. For example, the vast white area represents a couple of things for me, opportunity and isolation.
It's the viewer that determines what is happening for themselves. It's like presenting someone with a problem
and they solve it, but it's their answer not mine. The environments I have enjoyed painting lately are the crowds of characters
and their very hectic surroundings. There are many ways to look at this. One, take all your memories from today and put them
together, take all the moments from an event, like a speech, a song, a book, a relationship and then put them all together.
While I may represent a building or land and water for their literal meaning they also create a great environment. I've
been working on some speaker pieces recently after taking in some of the political speeches recently. The crowds represent
many emotions, personalities, values and so on. The structures, houses and buildings help represent the vastness that the
political speaker is trying to reach. That is my idea anyway, I'm not so concerned with who is speaking or what they are
speaking about, but visually representing the feeling of that event. I like to focus on the memories of that event. So, when
I work, I don't plan the piece out at all. I focus on one event, one emotion and start painting. It is very much meditation
for me, I'm painting my day dreams. This brings me back to the large canvases. The dreams are bigger and allow
the viewer to step into them a bit more, feel the texture and depth of the paint. I suppose this is my current style. I want
to show the under paintings and not hide them, it's me letting the past show through or past dreams blend in with the
new ones. That keeps my work from being static for me. It also makes it easy to paint over new paintings, because they will
still be part of the new work that is covering it up. This is one of the first summers that I have been working so
much, almost every day I have been painting so please join me at my show at Rosalux Gallery in July. The opening is July 10th
from 7-10PM.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Art-A-Whirl
Thanks to those like Doug Padilla, Art-A-Whirl founder, we had a chance to meet at Art-A-Whirl 2008. Thanks for stopping
by, some good times! It's a busy summer, I'm going to take week or so off from the studio to spend with my wife
Jennifer before I hop back into the studio and prepare for Ars Insurgo, my July show at Rosalux Gallery. So many people
came out to the studio and so many wonderful comments, even though I don't show it well, it really is moving to think
that maybe art can make someone smile, think, pause and question. Thanks for taking part on the experience. Lots of
love Eddie
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Eddie Hamilton Hi, I'm Eddie Hamilton and welcome to my site, you can browse and see a history of my art
work and evaluate its evolution. I consider myself to be an abstract painter, or maybe more of an expressionist, although
I like to think I have my own vibe going on. My current art work is focusing more and more on our relationships with those
around us, those we are close to and those we keep our distance from. It's my hope to capture the emotion of these relationships
with very simple characters, colors and the juxtaposition of it all.
I have been a member of Rosalux
Gallery in Minneapolis since the spring of 2006. My art work has been seen in collections from the Harvard Arts Department
to private Hollywood homes, and countless Minneapolis locations.
My studio is in the Northrup King Building in the Minneapolis Arts District,
I also work out of my home studio in South Minneapolis where I live with my beautiful bride Jennifer.
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Upcoming events Rosalux Gallery July
- August 2008, Ars Insurgo Spill the Wine July - August 2008, recent paintings
in the lounge
Bethany College August-September 2008, Solo exhibition
and talk. Art of This December 2008, Free Arts Minnesota fundraiser
Studio Hours The first Thursday of the month from 6-9pm,
studio 428 in the Northrup King Building. stop by to see new paintings
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Contact Information
email: eddiechicago@yahoo.com phone: 952/250-2768
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