Hello and welcome, yet again, to the latest installment of Appealing Arts, a blog for those with a taste for the finer things in life. Since the title of the blog is “Appealing Arts” and not “Appealing Music Found in Bars”, I decided to leave the booze filled taverns behind, and traveled up to Parkland to check out this ongoing exhibit they have there called “Layered Images”. Now, I never claim to have a great eye for art (and usually roll my eyes at those who do), and find it very hard to differentiate between “high brow” and “low brow”. However, I am very good at picking out pieces that I like, and there were quite a few in Hoag’s gallery. He uses a great number of colors, in original and sometimes peculiar combination’s. Every piece in the gallery contained a crudely drawn face , though it was often hard to discern with all the other colors and shapes. Some of the canvases were so layered, it was impossible to tell what the original coat had been. This was not a great venue for my usual five sense review, since the room was kept clean and orderly, with no smells or sounds to disturb the patrons. However, Hoag’s paintings provide enough visual stimulation to make up for this, and the gallery is definitely worthwhile to check out. More information can be found in the arts section of the website.
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Lisa Costello (Lisa Costello) says:
(Posted August 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am)
Dear Paul,
I just recently became aware of your blog. I am the Gallery Director at Parkland. I appreciate you coming out to see the show and enjoyed your review and honesty. I wanted to let you know that our upcoming reception for the Parkland Art & Design Faculty Exhibition will be this Thursday. I hope you can make it! We will have refreshments and live music by “Circle of Friends” which now only consists of two band members, so I would say it is a very small circle! Paul Young, Graphic Design Faculty, will be speaking at 7 about his work. The show runs until September 26 so if you can’t make it to the reception (for a complete 5 sense review) you could still see the artwork.
Thanks again and I hope to see you at the gallery!
Lisa
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Roberto Alomar (Roberto Alomar) says:
(Posted July 29th, 2009 at 5:08 pm)
I’d say you hit a home run with this one…