A Thin Line: Paintings by Ted Julian Arnold
Ted Julian Arnold (born Princeton, NJ, 1956) received his BA in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College, Hanover NH. He has been exhibiting with the Catharine Clark Gallery since 1991.
A Thin Line: New Paintings by Ted Julian Arnold are not works of traditional easel-sized dimensions nor painted on a conventional surface. Arnold’s latest works are in three formats: singular panels, diptychs or triptychs, and they combine oil paint and collage. the panels are actually chair backs, which when presented as a group at eye level suggest a thin line of ribbon encircling the gallery space, and lead us to believe we are looking beyond the gallery walls. Most of the works are rendered in either earthy organic hues or brilliant blues coupled with metallic leaves. In the late 1980’s and early ‘90’s, Arnold painted abstract canvases with “keyholes” of realistic renderings. Now his newest paintings are, in a sense, the keyholes of representation removed from the context of their abstract surrounds. The work in A Thin Line explores the intimacy of domestic moments and the physicality of relationships. The paintings offer a glimpse into the often unnoticed beauty of banal human interaction. The confined space of the chair back provides only enough room to render a portion of a facial element: eyes, mouths, brows: figural references: the slope of a woman’s back, arms embracing a torso, a pink shoulder. The restricted scale of the painted chair backs refer to the narrow band of information which we’re able to absorb in any given situation to create a cognitive reality from the excess of visual stimuli. The fragmentary nature of our visual experience and disjointedness of memory and recollection are here captured leaving the larger context in which these situations occur up to our imagination while emphasizing the beauty of ordinary moments.
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Striding throughthe Museum / oil on canvas / 50″ x 38″ / 1991
Shards / oil on canvas / 30″ x 32″ / 1996
Madonna of the Tub / oil on raw silk / 60″ x 40″ / 1996
Open Heart / oil on canvas / 50″ x 42″ / 1996
Roam Italy / encaustic and mixed media on panel / 30 x 18″ / 2003
Whaaam / encaustic and collage on panel / 46″ x 36″
River, Dreamer, Saint / oil on canvas / 108″ x 84″ / 1987
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