R. LANE CLARK, "LUMINOUS INCARNATIONS"
R. Lane Clark, "Luminous Incarnations"
Light Paintings
May 8 through June 15, 2013
Artist's Reception:
Saturday, May 11, 5 - 8pm
In his other-worldly photographs created by projecting images of natural elements onto the human form, R. Lane Clark brings us into a world of sensuality on the mysterious edge between this world and the next. His work celebrates the beauty of the male form illuminated by a layering of image and color, which imbues a chrysalis-like sense of emergence into a transcendent place beyond the physical realm. Baroque clouds, sprays of water, night-time fires, and textured lichen are inscribed onto moving figures in weightless spaces, transforming the body image into an archetypal carrier of forces. The effect recalls a primeval past, while taking the viewer into an expansive, universal present. Clark refers to his process of employing projection and photography as “painting with light.”
In some works, Clark pushes beyond the technological and photographic context by painting directly onto the images with acrylic and ink of varying viscosities. Dragging paint mediums across the surface, he generates additional references to natural forces. Clark only gets one shot at painting on top of these life-size photographic prints, and the effect is stunning. Gerhardt Richter and Jackson Pollock come to mind in terms of his fearless approach and action-painterly style. Clark cites Pollock as an inspiration who famously noted: “I don’t paint from nature. I am nature.” Clark states about his own approach to painting: “I encourage the paint to act and flow with the physics of nature. Then I get out of the way to let the magic happen.”
R. Lane Clark is a multi-media artist working in painting, photography, clay, and filmmaking. He frequently spends time in Ghana where he makes documentaries and teaches art. A syncretic spirituality influenced by the experience of straddling two worlds seems to infuse Clark’s recent body of “light paintings.” When not in Ghana, Clark lives and has his studio in the Painted Cave area above Santa Barbara. He is also the Art Director of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary.
http://rlaneclark.com/
Light Paintings
May 8 through June 15, 2013
Artist's Reception:
Saturday, May 11, 5 - 8pm
In his other-worldly photographs created by projecting images of natural elements onto the human form, R. Lane Clark brings us into a world of sensuality on the mysterious edge between this world and the next. His work celebrates the beauty of the male form illuminated by a layering of image and color, which imbues a chrysalis-like sense of emergence into a transcendent place beyond the physical realm. Baroque clouds, sprays of water, night-time fires, and textured lichen are inscribed onto moving figures in weightless spaces, transforming the body image into an archetypal carrier of forces. The effect recalls a primeval past, while taking the viewer into an expansive, universal present. Clark refers to his process of employing projection and photography as “painting with light.”
In some works, Clark pushes beyond the technological and photographic context by painting directly onto the images with acrylic and ink of varying viscosities. Dragging paint mediums across the surface, he generates additional references to natural forces. Clark only gets one shot at painting on top of these life-size photographic prints, and the effect is stunning. Gerhardt Richter and Jackson Pollock come to mind in terms of his fearless approach and action-painterly style. Clark cites Pollock as an inspiration who famously noted: “I don’t paint from nature. I am nature.” Clark states about his own approach to painting: “I encourage the paint to act and flow with the physics of nature. Then I get out of the way to let the magic happen.”
R. Lane Clark is a multi-media artist working in painting, photography, clay, and filmmaking. He frequently spends time in Ghana where he makes documentaries and teaches art. A syncretic spirituality influenced by the experience of straddling two worlds seems to infuse Clark’s recent body of “light paintings.” When not in Ghana, Clark lives and has his studio in the Painted Cave area above Santa Barbara. He is also the Art Director of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary.
http://rlaneclark.com/