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CONTACT: CS Gallery (305) 308-6561
787 NE 125th STREET
NORTH MIAMI, FL 33161
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“I Love Trouble”, Opening Reception for New Oil Paintings by Ted Karsch at CS Gallery
NORTH MIAMI, FL February 25th, 2011 7PM
“The human face is an empty force, a field of death,” wrote the French poet Antonin Artaud in a poem specifically covering the topic of European portrait painting. “The human face, in effect, carries a kind of perpetual death with it from which it’s really up to the painter to save it by giving it back his own peculiar features,” continued Artaud. This concept of the painter reinventing the features of the human face over time was the inspiration for artist, Ted Karsch, to paint over thirty oil paintings derived from the 1948, film noir, movie “I Love Trouble”. The opening reception for his solo show will be held on February 25th, at CS Gallery in North Miami, FL at 7 PM.
Visually, Ted Karsch was inspired to paint images from the 1948, film noir, movie “I Love Trouble” because of the interesting effects created by the film’s deterioration over time. Evidence of the film’s deterioration creates visually appealing forms and designs that enhance the composition of the paintings. ”Thematically, I was drawn to the film because of its labyrinthine plot structure. The absence of an intelligible plot structure allowed me the freedom to view the figures I was painting outside of the narrative story of the scripted film. As I continued to paint I realized that the figures I was painting were no longer tied to the characters in the movie. They had taken on their own existence and were being reinvented in the artistic process. I began to see people that I knew or thought that I knew emerging in the paintings”, said Ted Karsch.
The visually striking paintings are painted with open and wide brush strokes in a limited palette of Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber and Ivory Black. The methods used to paint the works were consciously derivative of the alla prima style and methods of the 16th Century Flemish painter, Franz Hals. The 30 paintings are oil on wood board and measure 26″X 16″.
Ted Karsch has been actively painting and drawing for the past five years and this show is his first solo exhibition. You can see his work online at www.TedKarsch.com or call 954-868-9347 for more information.
Please join me at the opening reception for:
New Paintings by Ted Karsch (Featuring 30 New Oil Paintings)
www.TedKarsch.com
Opening Reception: 7 PM, February 25th, 2011
CS Gallery
787 NE 125th STREET
NORTH MIAMI, FL 33161
Located across from the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)
Tel: 305.308.6561
info@chirinossanchez.com
Here is a new “I Love Trouble” painting completed today:
Finished painting
Before highlights
Rough preliminary sketch
Pallette
Blocked in colors
Screenshot
NORTH MIAMI, FL 33161
Painting 1
Painting 2
Painting 3
Painting 4
Painting 5
Painting 6
Painting 7
Painting 8
Painting 9
Painting 10
Painting 11
Painting 12
Painting 13
Painting 14
Painting 15
Painting 16
Painting 17
Painting 18
Painting 19
Painting 20
Painting 21
Painting 22
Painting 23
The following five paintings were entered into the Bakehouse Art Complex “Sin” Art Contest.
Here is a copy of the descriptive statement that I submitted to the judges along with the paintings:
“The five paintings comprising my submission to ¡SIN! all fall under the sin category of lust. The five paintings are inspired by the Mesopotamian epic poem Gilgamesh. Specifically, the paintings depict various aspects of the sexual union between Enkidu and a prostitute. Enkidu, in the Gilgamesh, is described as a wild-man with the hairy body of a beast and the face of a man. He is a noble savage who lives among the antelopes in the forest. Enkidu has the ability to speak with animals. Gilgamesh, the great ruler who lives in a nearby city hears about the wild-man Enkidu and is motivated by jealousy and curiosity to seek him out. In an attempt to lure his potential rival back to the city Gilgamesh sends out a prostitute to find Enkidu and seduce him. Enkidu and the prostitute spend six days and seven nights in lustful union. At the end of their time together Enkidu discovers that he can no longer communicate with the animals and the Antelopes flee from him. The prostitute persuades Enkidu to accompany her back to the city where Gilgamesh resides.”
- These Are All of my Parts (9″ X 11″, Oil on Canvas, 2010)
Our Return (25″ X 15″, Oil on Canvas, 2010)
- A Kiss Outside the City (9″ X 11″, Oil on Canvas, 2010)
- At Dusk we Changed (9″ X 11″, Oil on Canvas, 2010)
- When I Met You (24″ X 15″, Oil on Masonite, 2010)
The 18th painting for an upcoming show. The paintings are based on the film noir movie “I Love Trouble”.
The finished painting. After six hours of painting alla prima.
The painting in progress. After four hours of painting.
Screenshot of the movie.
The pallette.