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The official web site
for Erik ReeL, twenty-first-century American artist.
Current
and Upcoming Shows
Markings
A progression
of three shows of new paintings, no overlaps:
Markings Solo
Show New Paintings B-Street Guerilla Gallery Oxnard, California Art Beat Second Saturdays 13
August 2011 5-10 pm
Markings II Solo Show New Paintings Launch Party for
Arts & Culture Society805.com
B-Street Guerilla Gallery Oxnard Art Beat Second Saturdays 10 September 2011 7-9
pm
Markings - Culmination
Signs of a Lost Civilization
Solo Show Vita Art Center Bell Arts Factory Ventura, California November 2011 Opening Friday 4 November 2011 7-9 pm.
Anonymous
Vita Art Center
Fundraiser and gala
Friday 3 December
2011
Vita Art Center
Gala 5-6
Open 6-9 pm
432 Ventura Avenue
Ventura, CA
Flush
Stoeworks Studios
at Ventura Ave and Park Avenue
Pistol Productions event - so you
know its good
First Friday 3 December
6-10 pm
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Blog
Quotes
[on current art writing,
misuse and debasement of language:]
" ... The marketing people have taken over, poisoning everything
with their hyperbole. For them, everything's groundbreaking. Everywhere you look or listen, they're always
talking about groundbreaking this and groundbreaking that. You'd think everyone was out digging graves ..."
- Erik ReeL
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[on Erik ReeL's painting:]
Painting
as primal mark-making; inchoate, non-numinous, retro-ragnarok proto-signals, half-erased semicons.
"... micro-stories told via little tetches of color, via
efficient tagmemes of emotion. The strange mixture of distance and intimacy. ..." - Jae Carlsson, 2010
"ReeL's technique exhibits a high degree of transparency, layering,
sfgraffito and graffitto, with a strong sense of hand, the hand-made, and an absence of any references to the material world.
It has been interpreted as a critique of materialism, the machine or machine-made, and the triumph of feeling over the
manufactured. For ReeL, marking is a defining characteristic of the human; the primordial act of signification
and meaning for human consciousness."
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