Opus Seventy Eight

This is a movement in a totally new direction for me as an artist. I have told people for a long time that my art is “art for art’s sake” and that it does not represent anything. Then I did OpusSeventyTwo

and OpusSeventyFour

for the Silverstone Plaza Gallery of Galerrie Belle Ame and that changed everything. These two are loose representations of Mountains. I Was Commissioned by Kristy to build a piece to hang on the out side of her cabin. She is a huge fan of lizards and asked if I could make a lizard. Since she commissioned me before OpusSeventyTwo and OpusSeventyFour my answer was. I don’t make art that represents things so no I can’t do that. Well I changed my mind (That is my prerogative as an artist LOL) and so now she will get OpusSeventyEight and as you can see it is a total representation of a lizard.

I took the finished piece in to show her (While she was cutting someones hair) and with shears still in hand and no idea I had made her a lizard she turns and points the shears straight at me and yells “OMG!!! YOU ROCK!!!” I guess she liked it LOL. I did not deliver the piece at that time because I am planing on entering it in the SMA (Springville Museum of Art) Spring Salon. If the piece passes the Jurors and gets into the show Kristy wont get her piece until some time this summer. (She is not complaining though since she will then have a piece that hung in a museum not everyone can say that about the art in their home.