World of Hurt 05/06/2010
I wanted to share with you my latest work, which is a triptych series I am calling HURT. I couldn’t shake the thoughts from my mind how so often we, as a people, get glimpses of the world and its associated tragedies through our living room picture boxes. We see the pain and anguish of people far away from our everyday lives, we experience it in the comfort of our homes, and then after the weather we turn off the tube and head for bed. Perhaps we take some time to think about and process what we have just seen, or perhaps not. Soon the pace of life takes over and it is forgotten. The pictures of devastation are often times better forgotten and not dwelled on, but I do think they are important to SEE and not just notice. I personally feel that as a society, we tend to become de-sensitized to the overwhelming bits and pieces of information so readily available and thrown at us on a daily basis. I didn’t want to be de-sensitized in any way, so I started really looking at the people and their situations. I visited website after website, scanned newspapers and magazines and read story after heart-breaking story of both death and survival. The more I really looked and listened, the more touched and saddened I became. I decided that as an artist, the only real way I could relate what I was feeling was to create images that would cause people to stop and look and really SEE and FEEL and become sensitive along with me.  Click to Enlarge These three paintings are the result of that journey and thought process. I would love your feedback on the work as I also have taken a completely different stylistic approach to the work. This allowed me to experience the journey holistically as I not only spent a great deal of time laboring over the mixed media and toned down palettes – but also was presented with several problems that needed to be addressed and solved to get the look and feel I was going for. After all…painting is problem solving, and this series really took the task to hand. The paintings will be on display in Studio 8 at the next Artists Upstairs 2nd Friday Open Studio Event on May 14th. (Click here for more information.) I hope you are able to attend and can give me some first hand feedback, as well as take a look around Studio 8b and the beginnings of a new painting! Also a reminder that my show – Layered Senses: Works by Cagney King has been held over and will also be open in the Creative Arts Gallery for your viewing pleasure. If you missed it last month…now is your chance to see a complete collection of my work in a gallery setting. Keep your e-mails and letters coming! Until next time Rock On! November Radio Show & Fibanacci 42 11/12/2009
Greetings art lovers and fans! Time is just flying by and the paint and concrete have been flying as well in King Studios! I have been getting a lot of questions about my new work and I’m pleased to announce that at the November 2nd Friday Open Studio night at the Creative Arts and Event Center – I will indeed have some new work to share with you in Studio 8! I’m also excited to share with you that my Juarez Painting Series will be on display in the J. Ward Walker room – all hanging together for the first time ever! If you have a chance to come out to the event I would love to see everyone and chat about my new work. Click HERE for directions. As usual you will be able to find me hanging about Studio 8 on the 2nd floor, as all the Artists Upstairs Studio Artists will have the welcome mats out for you. It promises to be a fun night of music, wine and of course ART. For some insight and more discussion about my work, be sure to scroll down and check out the November installment of the WHBU Cagney King Artist in Residence Radio Show.  I have received several e-mails about the picture featured on the November E-mail flyer. It is a detail from my ‘Fibonacci 42’ mixed media painting. Mixed media including but not limited to concrete, tempera, graphite, acrylic, collage, and oil paint. But of course the only way to really enjoy it is in person, and you guessed it, I will have it hanging in Studio 8 for you to spend some quality time with. You can also read a little more about the background of the painting HERE in my journal. And you can visit the CURRENT page to see it as well. Well…back to work! Lots to do before the Friday Night show. And remember, “when asked what to do with the weight of the world on his shoulders; Atlas merely shrugged.” And then I’m pretty sure he went to an art exhibit to help lift his spirits. Until next time! Rock on! Listen to the WHBU Cagney King Artist in Residence Radio Show!Cagney's June Radio Show 06/11/2009
Hello (hello -hello (insert echo effect here) out there! Been a while since we chatted! Don't be sore with me, I have been very busy in Studio working on some new work and getting ready for my next show! After all, I have to paint! It is what I do! (...and if I don't then small animals and wildlife are sacrificed) I have been exploring new textures and letting myself be taken on a journey with my new work...and boy what a ride it has been. I want to share it with you all and am excited to do so, so let me take a few minutes aside to personally invite you all to my next show! The show will be at Wug Laku's Studio & Garage Gallery and will be part of First Friday in downtown Indianapolis! So that will be Friday, July 3rd! I'm so excited to be working with Wug and Nancy, and thrilled at the prospect of getting into a gallery in Indianapolis! Please plan to come! Of course I will send out reminders and will keep bugging you to come! The gallery is right off of Mass Ave in Indianapolis at the Circle Center Industrial Complex. So very cool! |   Cagney KingI am 98% Artist (110% at heart - but bad at math) and 2% human being. I keep working hard in the hopes that one day my art story will be like the great artist fairytale. You know the one - the one about how the poor, struggling artist rocking on the edge of insanity is toiling away in her studio day after day, when one day a handsome person comes to see her work, and decides that she should be rescued. From that day on they pay her to paint, pimp out her work and buy her beer. Everyone lives happily ever after. Click the 'Z' for Link to 2nd Friday Event Information! ArchivesJuly 2010 CategoriesAll 
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