tonywynn showproposal

..and in the day before yesterday my star came to me and

unfolded my imagination like a gallery in the capital of an undiscovered country...

tony

wynn

art

SHOW

PROPOSALS

This collection of images, citizenship projects was initiated in Manhattan in 2000 for a one man showing I had in Helsinki the spring of 2001 (prior to 9/11) entitled the right to remain silent. I was lucky enough to have my show reviewed by an art critic of the Helsingen Sonomat who generously called my art fresh and gave the show an enthusiastic review. The collection traveled to Berlin for The Ugly American Tour in 2006. A Pre-Obama online exhibition with a multimedia link of video with sound at this link for an exhibtion at Texas A&M: (copy/paste) http://tonywynn.homestead.com/CitizenshipProjects.html or click on either image.

This collection has grown and evolved over the years and pieces from this exhibition have been featured on covers of periodicals and magazines including MIAMI CLOSER and EASTSIDER to the right, with more images in online stories from AbsoluteArts.com and the Miami Arts Exchange among others.

Prices starting at $350 retail for multimedia originals.

This collection of images, the charismatics, are from the earliest days of my inspiration to start painting the faces from/of my imagination. I pulled from literature's tragic heroes, like Hardy's Jude the Obscure & The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter and Lawrence's Lady Chatterly (and sometimes her lover). Charismatics are people who are victimized by their own devices. Hiding our realities with the false face, we must lie to exist it seems. My faces tend to judge the observer, or accuse.

I create each painting as if it might by the only painting chosen by a new collector in an apartment somewhere as an intellectual stimulant. I am always updating this collection of portraits for that one collector.

Portraits are my largest sellers.

Various sizes and priced from $150 retail.

This collection of images, the caravanseri, was inspired by my interest of the culture and environments of the prophets from the Old Testament and traveling revival cult. The idea of a human in communication with God is a dominant theme of my art, the place where that happens is of special interest.

The "Miracle Tent" (left), seventh of my twelve original paintings, is one of the places where this spiritual contact happens. They represent the collapsible soul, the places for practicing believery.

In my artmind the Bible was written in tents, and was also the first tabernacle for enclosure worship. I also believe we will dwell in tents in heaven, and most of my poetry describes scenes happening in tents.

These originals are various media and range in sizes from 8x10, beginning at $175 retail.

This collection of images, Karmayoga, are my landscapes. The kites I think emerged as an expression of a wish for a connection between the earth and sky, and are quite indicative of the subconscious state of my being. The images represent an expression of freedom and levity and illustrate the subconcious of keeping your spirit up. Additional pieces in this collection include intuitive abstracts and assembled art from found objects, including the problem of innocent suffering.

The companion category to this series, Purgatory, features my people from time. The black stick figures roam the landscapes like anonymous souls, constructing and deconstructing what is permanent and what is temporary.

This collection of images, minority damage, is a cacophony of pieces that depict the life of what I call the parallel world of nontruth, or the silent truth. At its center is the helpless state of the minorites of the world who are victimed by the myth of race and the adoption of racial stereotypes by people who are unable to trust or even recognize the identities of their own unique souls. It depicts the human condition as one long chain of nteraction based on victimization. The central theme seems to be a forced inate desire of the victim to victimize.

Often the escape and release of this stress is found in spiritual focus. A system of spiritual belief based on diety identity cannot be successful as evidenced by the failings of the curate individuals and their remarkable public pleas for forgiveness from their inevitable sins knowing it can all be fixed simply by confession. But men who promote self injury cannot be true believers in God, simply because they are not able to internalize a god when it is in the external. God requires internalization to exist beyond myth.

This series of paintings include various media and sizes are more of the perturbed portraits. They provoke a thought train of storytelling by the viewers. Each story becomes their own.

other possible showing proposals available on request:

glossolalia

years later god's love found in drinking water

photographs

objectivity

a showing of projects from recycled items

a showing of art that includes text

a show of projects that originated with photographic images

This collection of images, believery, intends to focus on the numinous world of worship leaders, biblical prophets, shamen, tarot readers, illuminati and the such. My concept of believery is that it is the driving force behind all human behavior. Belief is the only real offset and shield against fear. The majority of my first images were believers and are in many art collections here in America and abroad. "The Cardinal of New York" (left) was painted the day of the death of John O'Connor in 2000 and represents the soul fleeing the body to exist in the afterworld represents people one sees on the path to Heaven.

Most favorite among collectors. various sizes starting from $175 retail.