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Artist Talk with Isiah Bates
Artist Talk with Isiah Bates
March 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for a talk on Tuesday March 11th 7:00-8:00pm with gallery artist Isiah Bates and his show Visions of Modular Dreamscapes, currently on view through March 29th.
Curator Matt Allyn Chapman will lead the conversation, questions and thoughts are welcome throughout!
Light refreshments will be served.
Selection from the Exhibition Copy:
Our dreams have purpose, though mysterious and hard to fully grasp, we are coming to understand them more and more. Memory retention, emotional repair, cognitive stimulation during periods of rest, these are just a few of the benefits of our dreams. Physically and mentally, they are deeply important, though creatively, they can be instrumental. Isiah draws from the creative well that his dreams have sprung to mesmerizing effect. Each time pulling something to the surface that feels impossible. Landscapes never visited, people and beings both familiar and strange, entities and energies that only make sense in the logic and possibility of the dreaming world. It’s really when his hands and mind connect that they are made material.
“This body of work represents a true exploration of self, in its purest form. An unfiltered reality waiting to be pieced together. By letting my hand move across the surface without any true direction, I can actively pull from this other reality. This process lessens the stress of perfection and creates a direct link between the waking world and that of the mind. This allows me to create a dreamscape of raw emotion and lived experience. Then I sit back and analyze with the viewer. I may not know what they all mean quite yet, but a new piece of the story is revealed with each painting. This is what drives me to make more. An ongoing process of self discovery through art. I am both the artist and the audience.”
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