Garden of Midnight
This is the first of three panels that will comprise a small series of three. Leaning back into bas-relief for this particular theme. Muse tells me I talk too much, so, going to abstain from any further comments!
Responses (1)
June 29, 2022
It is hard to know where to begin with Chuck Stableford’s Garden of Midnight. The present work blurs the lines between sculpture and painting, figuration and abstraction, and love and hate, a veritable labyrinth of twisting and turning shapes and sensual figures. The figures hang off their wood panel backing like daydreams or nightmares on the viewer's mind (I leave it up to each viewer to decide between the latter and the former). The beautiful and enigmatic hues exploding from the surface defy description. The overlapping three-dimensionality of the forms creates a phantasmagoria of writhing life that consumes any room the work is placed in.
June 29, 2022
Aloha John, thank you for your incisive remarks. You summed up all the important aspects. Look forward to your remarks on the next two panels of this small series.
Many thanks for taking the second look.
July 01, 2022
I can't wait to see them all together! Do you see the work as a triptych or a series?
July 02, 2022
Excellent question! I see the first three as being interconnected narratively so they could be taken as a triptych. No doubt I will expand on the theme though, overall. I tweet "Flyovers," which are short vids of the works progress if you like to see process in action. Thanks again for your keen insights and interest.! Aloha!
- Category
- Symbolic, Provocative
- Type
- Mixed Media - Unframed
- Materials
- Acrylic, Other, Wood Panel
- Dimensions
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18.00 inches wide
24.00 inches tall
2.00 inches deep - Weight
- 4.00 lbs
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
