Lyle Motley
"Sending the Sightlings"
June 3 - 26, 2011
Artist Reception: Friday, June 3rd; 8-11 PM
Lyle Motley has a huge pile of questions. Questions like, "If you were sitting in car stuck in traffic , or alone on the front steps of your house , or stuck in a room with a bunch of empty chairs, and there was some sort of a cloud, what would you do? Would you kick at it or punch it? Shoot your sling shot at it? Yell or be silent? Would you laugh at it or tell it stupid jokes? Try to name it or leave it unnamed? Would you try to escape it or let it follow you around? Would you float above it or sit below? Would you accept the picture in front of you or see another? If you saw another picture what would it be? Could you hold it, like hands cupping water? If you held it and kept holding it, what would happen then? What would that look like? Would it expand or contract? Radiate out or collapse into itself? Could it have mass and momentum? Turn weakness into strength, sadness into joy, confusion into clarity? Would you try to contain it or send it out? And if you sent it out where would it go? East or West, North or South, or just a block down the street? Would anyone else notice it or would it silently pass them by? Could they see it or would they look right through? But what if it is real, like a rock or your shadow at sunset, and you had no words to describe it, what would you do? Would you expose a picture? Sculpt a stone? Strum a song? Or would you paint?"
Sending the Sightlings is a collection of paintings that reflect Lyle Motley's decision to explore these questions with paint, wire, and steel, heralding
Lyle Motley's return to La Luz De Jesus Gallery. Lyle's new paintings continue to explore the narrative potential of abstraction, and also present his most ambitious inclusion of sculptural elements to date. Lyle creates these unique sculptural paintings by bending and brazing rods of steel, filling the spaces with custom cut panels and finally finishing in oils. As a result several of the paintings in "Sending The Sightlings" escape and are unbound by the squares & rectangles of frames.
The complete collection can be viewed as one.
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