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For over thirty years I have been drawing urban and natural landscapes based on my travels and where I live. I studied graphic design at the Colorado Institute of Art. In 2000 I received a BFA from Metropolitan State College of Denver. During that time I worked as an area rug designer at the Denver Design Center. In 2004 I received an MFA from the University of Connecticut where I taught drawing. For the next five years I worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After returning to Colorado in 2012 I taught drawing and painting at Metropolitan State University of Denver for ten years and studio courses at The Community College of Denver. I am currently a member of Pirate Contemporary Art in Lakewood, Colorado. Using drawings and paintings I made locally or when traveling, this method of display is intended to break with how representational art is normally exhibited, a reflection on cultural and social homogenization. They are shown in installations in unconventional or nontraditional ways as a personal narrative affirming the expressive nature of the work and present an opportunity to investigate and experiment with methods of display, challenging the context of a space in relation to the art, and how viewers experience the work, breaking with how representational art is normally exhibited, a comment on cultural and social homogenization. I refer to these exhibitions as a type of "subversive curatorial aesthetics". Integrated throughout each installation are references to pop culture (stills from films, TV shows, and advertisements) including books or images related to specific themes within the work such as political images and cartoons or philosophical and theoretical texts. In the installations drawings in frames or paintings on canvas hang and lean on walls at or below four feet and may be scattered on the floor, works on paper (not in frames) may be taped to the wall, some frames may be empty or broken or the glass shattered, framed pieces or paintings on canvas may be turned to the wall with only descriptive text on the back exposed, work may be completely hidden from view and implied to exist, some pieces may be quick marker sketches of preexisting work. Lighting is usually direct using simple clamp lights or floods the work using led shop lights, an additional method to disrupt the viewing and in some instances designed to intentionally redirect the viewer. The idea is to bring the art down both literally and metaphorically demonstrating it's fallibility and association to the human condition as well as ability to adapt to different environments and situations. To purchase original artwork email: charlesdurerstudio@yahoo.com |
