Posted on 6 July, 2013 at 3:44
Nova, 48" x 72" Square Dance, 48" x 48"
I was invited by Brad Nack, Curator, to exhibit two paintings in the new exhibition, "In the Big Room", at MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery. The exhibit runs from July 5 through August 11, 2012, with a reception on Friday, July 12, 2013, 5-8 p.m.
Posted on 30 May, 2013 at 3:05
I have been selected to exhibit one of my pieces, "Breakfast in Space", in the next juried art Exhibition in the Mayor's Office, at Santa Barbara City Hall. The exhibit opened on Thursday, June 6, 2013.
Below is the piece that was selected:
" BREAKFAST IN SPACE", Mixed Media, 22" x 30"
Posted on 29 May, 2013 at 12:29
STATEMENT OF WORK
SOLAR REFLEXIONS
In addition to my contemporary, designer paintings, I am adding a series of work titled, "Solar Reflexions". It is an art form that Man Ray developed during the 1920's. He was a Surrealist and Dadaist renowned for his photographs of "cameraless" pictures called Rayographs, which he described as "pure Dadaism".
Working between the abstract and the representational, the Rayographs revealed a new way of seeing, which paved the way to the dreamlike visions of the Surrealist writers and painters.
My intent is to explore the "universe" within my art, complete with its familiar galaxies and unexplored uncertainties. I have employed light as an agent in creating images of space, with its vast multiple dimensions of time, light, and matter. I have learned to manipulate reflections, refractions, and shadows of light to create infinite patterns, which are reminiscent of the region beyond the earth's atmosphere and beyond the solar system.
It is "light" that is significant to the creation of the universe, and it is the universe that is significant to the creation of my art.
Christa Lyons
Artist
NOTE: The works from "Solar Reflexions" can be viewed on my Home
page. Prints are available upon request.