Skyler Lovelace Arts

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My exploration of the significance of Trova's GOX #4.

Hidden in plain sight: Ernest Trova’s 'GOX #4' This installment in an ongoing series about the City of Wichita's public art collection examines a 1975 steel sculpture that suggests a solitary, fragmented future.

Beyond pixels: Friends University’s 'Analog & Alternative' bridges photography’s past and future The exhibition includes a wide range of photographic processes, including cyanotype, Polaroid, and film developed in coffee. It's on view at the Riney Fine Arts Gallery through March 29.

Orar, Amar, Luchar exhibit upstairs at CityArts: wonderful artwork, plus you can watch "Searching for La Yarda" a brief video about the Mexican families who settled in an East Lawrence neighborhood known as “La Yarda.”
https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/places/searching-for-la-yarda

The group show "Affinity" is up through mid November at the Carriage Factory Art Gallery in Newton. My paintings on display include this series of experiments with a red gesso background: "Barn Party," "Kansas Petroglyphs," and "Rabbit Heaven." The fantasy Rabbit Heaven got the most comments at the show opening.
More info on the Red Series: https://www.skylerlovelace.com/viewcollection/208894

This painting began with a roadside walk in Tuscany; I used crushed flower petals and stems to lay out its lines and first colors.

It, and other paintings from Lucca, will be available at Newton's Carriage Factory Art Gallery September 21-November 14. More info about the show is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1031658282001991/1031658418668644/?event_time_id=1031658418668644

https://www.skylerlovelace.com/blog/195639/what-the-tuscan-landscape-said-the-story-of-a-painting

What the Tuscan Landscape Said ~ the story of a painting Back in our shared studio, I pressed petals onto the canva-paper, releasing the violet and maroon shapes. I dipped flower stems in green/blue acrylic paints and rolled them to create horizontal lines:

William Carlos Williams' Red Wheel Barrow poem is now represented in a Pittsburgh, PA, community garden. Jane & I did this one -- the broken wheel barrow was headed for the landfill, ditto the shipping pallet that we rescued from a local art supply store; the white rooster was a weather vane at a reclamation yard.
This is a very handsome bit of guerrilla art sneaked onto the site. I hope all the gardeners enjoy Williams' 100-yr-old poem.