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"Sing the Listen Wire" |
"Paper Wings"
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"To Ride the Tandem with Grace"
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Lyle Motley - "Day One"
May 1 - 31, 2009
Lyle Motley doesn’t get enough sleep, and this simple fact has become one of the primary influences of his work. “Day One” represents a collection of paintings that were largely created while everyone he knows, and a whole bunch of people he doesn’t know, were asleep. These “nocturnal experiments” with oil paint were not created with a particular theme in mind, but rather, grew on their very own. Like the events in some sort of disconnected all-night dream, these paintings have surprised Lyle with the associations they keep making without his permission. The paintings seem to be interested in exploring a sense of calm found in moments of change, confusion, wind, and wire. Like the painting of a girl pulling a tangle of night through a doorway into a sunlit landscape, “Day One” is a tangle of things created at night, shipped to California in way too much cardboard and bubble wrap, and drug out into the light of day.
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"Sing the Listen Wire" |
"Paper Wings"
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"To Ride the Tandem with Grace"
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