I will end posts on my early Blackfish exhibition with this one. The third one was on my second groups of "Wall Series" whose photos I have shown in earlier post that discussed my early shows at Blackfish. I will just leave a small photo image here as this is repeat. It was held at the early part of 1983 just before I left Blackfish as I was planning to move onto other things. These were shown on a new space that Blackfish lately bought. A narrow space next to Blackfish was opened for rent so members took over and refinished it. This extended the space to the point that space wise, Blackfish possessed one of the the three largest commercial gallery space in the Northwest. So Irene Senners, a superb artist, took over the main gallery, and I the side gallery, and we both I believe were well received by artists and critical viewers.
Unlike earlier pieces, these Wall pieces were fairly uniform in terms of size, shape, and materials used. And also different from earlier pieces, there was definite difference between front and back side of walls. The front area was much more paintly while the back was more uniform with near single tone coloring. Unlike earlier works also was that instead of reflecting the human presence through weathered walls of surrounding walls of old buildings, these I felt were more like painted monoliths with more of stonehenge like presence as though they abstractedly recorded the passing of eons of time or like something to the effect of monoliths that appeared on that great movie, 2001 Space Odyssey. Come to think of it, the author Arthur C. Clarke was one of my favorite SF author. In fact I have listened to his lecture at Gill Coliseum in Oregon State University back in 1970.
昔のブラックフイシューギャラリの展示についてのポストはこの三番目の私のここでの個展についてで終わらせます。この個展の作品の写真は前のポストで見せましたから小さいのをもう一度見せるだけで終わらせます。１９８３年におこなわれたこの個展は新しいスペースで開きました。ギャラリーのお隣に狭い空間が開いたので、うちらが借り、壁や床をリフォームして展示できるようにした。展示の空間でいけば当時米国北西部のコマシャールギャラリーの中では少なくてもトップスリーに入るほど大きくなった。私の道都の卒業生にわかりやすく言うと、多分廊下も含め、小林先生のゼミ室から内藤先生のゼミ室までの空間の広さはあっただろうと思う。おかげで大きな作品をつぎからつぎとエンリョなく展示できた。
この機会に二番目の「壁」のシリーズの作品を展示した。これらは前の「壁」の作品とは違いほとんど同じ形で同じ大きさで、材料もほぼ同じ、まとまったグループにした。又、前の「壁」の作品とは違い、崩れかけたｌ古い建物の壁のイメージを応用し、人の気配を現すのではなく、もっとイギリスのストーンヘンジで見られる古代の雰囲気を持つ固体のようなものの雰囲をもっているように私は思った。けっこう良い評価を多くの芸術家や鑑賞家たちから受け、これらの作品の製作者として今でも紹介される。
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