"A San Diego Artist distills everyday moments and world events into a pure essence of color, space, and shadows, inspiring others to connect to the world around us." Sandra Shrader, Under the Sun Magazine, June 2009.
“C’est la Vie”, a site-specific project, 2009 -
(the wall is 45 feet long)
Created and painted from a series of recent photographs of landscapes and of people, taken in San Diego and in the adjacent deserts, “C’est la Vie” proposes a series of snapshots of the way I see the place where I live.
The puzzle-like installation, made especially for the SDAI space, continues the exploration started with “Here it’s Peace”, my first solo show at the SDAI in June 2008, and with the ensemble of six large paintings “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” presented in the show “New Contemporaries II” (San Diego Art Prize 2009) at Noel-Baza Fine Art in February-March 2009.
photo courtesy Leslie Ryan
The small paintings, specially created for the installation,
are from 4 different series I worked on:
- Territories series/landscapes (desert and ocean - some completely abstract),
- Territories series/connections (people in abstract landscapes),
- Territories Series/Troops (soldiers),
- Watching series (portraits).
I created a stream of mixed images which tells about the world directly related to me and about some events which affect my life indirectly (the war, the border, the credit crisis).
