Arthur Comings
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"Blue Sign" at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel
"My pieces are constantly exploring new territory, pushing the idea of what can be done.
Explorations like that are never entirely comfortable, for either the artist or the viewer. But I believe that the search is worth it." -- Journal, 2008
Explorations like that are never entirely comfortable, for either the artist or the viewer. But I believe that the search is worth it." -- Journal, 2008
I grew up listening to what is now called Border Radio in San Diego, California -- just across the Mexican border from AM rhythm and blues stations too powerful to be licensed in the US. The harmonies, cadences, and chord progressions that I learned back then have stayed with me through the years, and their gritty inspiration drives me in my studio every day.
All of the pieces you see here are imbued with the blues -- from the process of scrounging for raw materials in urban streets and rural junkyards, through the incessant improvisation as I explore different ways of combining colors, textures, weights, and densities, to the final conviction that I have assembled something new and lasting.
I hope that these pieces — abstract, all of them — express something about the tangled, messy, sometimes magnificent strategies we all use to make peace with the demons inside of us, and with the world outside.
All of the pieces you see here are imbued with the blues -- from the process of scrounging for raw materials in urban streets and rural junkyards, through the incessant improvisation as I explore different ways of combining colors, textures, weights, and densities, to the final conviction that I have assembled something new and lasting.
I hope that these pieces — abstract, all of them — express something about the tangled, messy, sometimes magnificent strategies we all use to make peace with the demons inside of us, and with the world outside.
Please note that several of the pieces on these pages have been rented out to decorate new lofts in San Francisco. Feel free to contact me about rental terms.
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