CHRIS J. MELANSON
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CJM
"I don’t know for sure if when people look at my artwork they’re honestly thinking of it as brilliant or imaginative or even interesting—whatever people think of it is what they’re going to think of it. It does not matter to me. And even though I do enjoy displaying my work for others to judge, to me, what’s important is what I think of my work. When I can easily get lost in one of my pieces over and over again, without getting tired of looking at it, I realize how proud I am to be the one who created it!"
"One (First)" 2005
"Simple River" 2005
"Three Shades of Blue" 2005
"Not A Dragon" 2005
"Flight" 2005
"Sober Reflection" 2005
"At Times (Man Ending)"
2005
"Radar" 2005
"Untitled" 2005
"Simple Loss (Western)" 2005
"Drunken Reflection" 2005
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OIL or ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
2005 Works
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INK or PASTEL ON PAPER
Earlier Works
"Untitled" 2004
"All For One (Hands)" 2002
"Plastic Day Dream" 2005
"Paths of a Live Cycle" 2003
"Love, Hate?" 2005
"Who Created Us?" 2003
"Love" 1999
"Confusion" 2002
"Untitled" (pieces 1 & 2) 2002
"Pastel Garbage" (pieces 1 - 4) 2004
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MISCELLANEOUS ART
From the Past & Present
There are so many genres, or categories to abstract artwork, I honestly have only some clues what one would categorize my own abstract works under. Regardless what category, I prefer most of my abstract works to be without a recognizable subject—works that don’t relate to anything external or try to look like something. Instead, I prefer the color and the form to be the subject of my paintings. My intention, if any, is for viewers to find my work completely non-objective and non-representational. My hope is simply that the more one looks at one of my works, the less they will actually see, but the more they will receive from it.When I finally decide to create a new piece, it is usually because I have been craving the feelings I get while I am creating a new piece. These feelings can be waves of up and down emotions, all which I invite somewhat equally. When I first start the work, I have, in most cases, already come up with the main “look.” During this time, I feel a lot of anticipation for the final outcome (the finished piece.) When I am in the middle of the work, at times, things are turning out the way I had hoped they would, but they sometimes fail to turn this way as well. When the latter of the two happens, I feel frustration, and embarrassment. But these feelings only drive me. I’ve learned I tend to get complacent in my work, and bored in my work, when things are constantly going the way I had planned. If I could have only one “set in stone” cycle, regarding the progression of the creation of my new pieces, I would prefer the cycle to be: create a piece that I really fall in love with, create two or three pieces that I at first reject (I truly eventually fall for them all), and then create another brilliant piece, and around and around it would go. However, this would probably become boring to me as well. Now, in no way am I saying that I dislike being an artist or that it is boring to me; I honestly can’t say how I really feel about it. I guess you could look at it in the way we breathe the air. Breathing is not something we choose to do, we just instinctively do it. Without it, we would not be able to live. I create my abstract works because I have to. There is not a day that goes by where I don’t, in the least, think about my work. It is a part of me. It is me. It is like the air in some respects.An Artist Statement:
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"Heaven and Hell and Everything In Between"
1998 - 1999
"Veins" 2000
"Horrible Car Crash" 2009
"Dirty Beauty" 2008
Untitled as of 8/2009
CHRIS WILL
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IN
2013!
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