Ernest Villarreal
Labyrinth of Abstraction
January 8 - January 29, 2010
Reception:
Thursday January 14, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
In the works of Ernest Villarreal there is a quality of freedom that is evidenced at every stage of their creation. On hard board or canvas, acrylics swirl and undulate, blend and patter across the surface or explode in violent cascades of pigment. The paintings embody tension and movement through their conflicting colors and heightened perspective. Having started out attending life drawing, still life and landscape classes, Villarreal became disillusioned with the rigid academic manner of representation and sought to develop for himself a way of expressing his physical and emotional energy in paint. He uses brushes, tools and found objects to make marks and explore the acrylics. His style is intuitive – each painting is truly an individual one, as each is a new exploration in space and feeling. Each is the roadmap of its process of creation, of the dialogue between artist and medium.
Ernest Villarreal is a Mexican/American painter currently living and working in Philadelphia.
Artist Statement
Over the years I have taken numerous Art classes in still life, figure drawing and landscape painting. For a reason I could not understand, they never kept my interest. After years of hiatus I was watching the documentary “What the bleep do we know” and somehow during the course of the movie a few profound statement continued to resonate in my mind and body, that came to shape my future. “We only see what we believe is possible” and “we create our own reality”. These statements have expanded my vision and released me from the precepts of my previous conditioned reality of matching patterns. I have learned that what happens inside me will create what happens outside me, and that I can share this with others.
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