Gary Frier - "Similar similarities -The Glance"

Similar similarities -The Glance
Mixed media on paper, US$71

Similar similarities -The Glance

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Mixed media on paper

W: 270mm x H: 390mm
W: 11" x H: 15"

Approx. Weight: 0.25kg

This work is unframed

Price

US$71

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Location

(with the artist)

About "Similar similarities -The Glance"

The title refers to concepts derived from fractal Geometry –which deals with the natural phenomena where structures share characteristics for example the vein of a leaf grows similar to a flowing river cutting into a landscape.
The body of works exhibited here form part of a collection, which plays with the sameness and difference that make up portraits. Originally done sporadically in sketchbooks taken from day to day observations of urban life.
These works started as an experiment in which I tried to find a figrative relationship between found portraits and experssionistic memories of faces.The works have no beginning or end unto themselves but are a type of stream of consciousness the meanders between figurative abstract and expressionistic styles. Similar to the experience of traveling through the day and recording experiences from moment to moment.
As well as traditional techniques of drawing and paintings I’ve also made use of masks to illustrate the ambiguous nature of revealing and hiding of personalities below the persona.
Words to keep in mind:
Whimsical - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
Frivolous - not serious in content or attitude or behavior
personableness - the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive
persona - a personal facade that one presents to the world
façade - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant or the front of a building

Gary Frier

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About Gary

Gary Frier

Gary is an Artist with SouthAfricanArtists.com based in South Africa.

Gary finds inspiration in many forms of media. Creating art for him is about constantly reflecting on his place in the world, discovering how to distill and interpret this interaction with what surrounds him and documenting that personal relationship.
Recently he has participated in an exhibition at the Alliance franciase du Cap entiteled Similiar similarities and strange attractors the Picasso in Africa exhibition and the KKNK festival in Oudtshoorn Branding me. In 2004 the Wasanni international artists workshop in Lamu-Kenya and his body of work encompasses figurative abstract and expressionistic styles. He accepts commissions as well.

Price Range

US$50-3,492

Galleries

Cape Gallery

Exhibitions

Greatmore Studios, Idasa and Durbanville Cultural Society, Battswood Art Centre, Le Bon Ton, Caledon Museum, Fordsburg Art Studios (Bag factory) as well as Alliance Francaise de Mitchell's Plain. Gary's work forms part of the collections of BP regional office People et Culture organization of Brest France, the Fortis Circustheatre -Scheveningen as well as the Embassy of USA, Nairobi

Education

Zonnebloem Art centre,Cape Peninsula University of Technology

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