Marrow Gallery presents Tondo, a group exhibition featuring the work of Shawn Powell, Kristin Farr and Travis Collinson. A tongue-in-cheek take on the round canvas, the three artists use the circle as a beach ball, a patterned hex sign and a shooting star racing through the galaxy. The stiffness and seriousness of a traditional tondo subject, historically featuring renaissance portraiture, is traded for the literal and representational. The exhibition runs March 12 - April 16th.
I have on a number of occasions used imagery of stars in my work. Usually as a means of illustrating the concept of night. This group of paintings is composed of heavenly events. They are illustrative and draw heavily from graphic representations of the sun and stars used on tee shirts in the 70's and 80's, the works also combine the elements of facial features, this personifies the heavenly event and offers a somewhat whimsical representation of the cosmos.