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Structures of the Past—

             The Legacy of the Future 
 

“My art comes from the things I see around me; it comes from nature; and it comes from my own background.”

--Carlo Van Grieken 
 

Why towers?  Towers and turrets, for me, have a significance of strength and protection in the built urban environment.  They suggest security, power, and beauty.  This is why we love romantic castles and fortress towns.  This show focuses on my interest of how the structure, movement, and volume of towers and turrets interplay with each other and connect with the intangible sky.
   

The edifice is an inhabited artifact that embodies the beautiful and diverse history as-well-as romanticized past of Baltimore City.  The solid structures are presented as clean, pure forms that are highly textured yet unblemished by time.  They are not sublime, decaying relics of a tarnished memory.  They encourage the viewer to appreciate the deeper, more-meaningful artistry of Baltimore’s architecture.  For me, the clean representations endorse a spirit of potential and promise here.  The connected geometries of the towers and turrets converge to convey an infinite edge that stretches into the blue sky with limitless imagination.  The solid forms appear to grow up from their solid foundations and join the surreal blue.  Perspective is portrayed from the position of one viewer, myself.  The onlooker is invited to participate in this narrative journey. 

Baltimore’s magnificent architecture made this charged impression on me when I first visited this city.  The rich urban fabric appeared extraordinary not by horizontal lines of white-stepped rowhouses, but by the turreted sentinels that stand guard and point upward to a limitless Baltimore sky.  I now live in a Baltimore townhouse with a corner turret.  I find that tower rooms have a connection with infinity because their unlimited views outside and cornerless internal boundaries make a singular connection with the neighborhood and with my own imagination.         


Past Exhibitions:

Merida, Venezuela
Valencia, Venezuela
Yucaipa, California
Guadalajara, Mexico
Redlands, California
Toulouse, France
Riverside, California 

 

Images of Exhibit (click on images for larger view):

Carlo Van Grieken "The Beginning" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 Carlo Van Grieken "Study I" Acrylic on Canvas 8"x19"2008 SOLD Carlo Van Grieken "1900" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x36" 2008 Carlo Van Grieken "Studies II & III" Acrylic on Canvas 8"x19" 2008 BOTH SOLD Carlo Van Grieken "1820 Turret" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008

Carlo Van Grieken "The Sacred Door" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 SOLD Carlo Van Grieken "Red Tower" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 Carlo Van Grieken "Turrets" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 Carlo Van Grieken "The View" Acrylic on Canvas 18"x24" 2008 Carlo Van Grieken "Lady In White" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 SOLD

 

 

 

Scott Gelo & Eric Ehlenberger Neon Exhibit

Ventus
Scott Gelo

Jellyfish
Eric Ehlenberger

 

 

Pilgrimage Series
Scott Gelo

   

 Interior View

 Exterior View

Absence & Presence

Oil Paintings by Johan Lowie
(click on thumbnail to view larger image)

Listener-Oil on Woodboard 24x30 The Burden-Oil on Canvas 24x30 Daydream-Oil on Woodboard 24x28 Sold Look From Outside-Oil on Woodboard 24x28 The Cold Room-Oil on Canvas 24x24 Sold

Transformation-Oil on Woodboard 31x35 The Visit-Oil on Woodboard 31x35 The Dreamer-Oil on Canvas 15x15 The Naturalist-Oil on Canvas 15x15 The Analyst-Oil on Canvas 15x15

 

A native of Belgium, Mr. Lowie was influenced by Flemish expressionist painters at a very young age. His father took him on visits to the studios of painters, which ignited Mr. Lowie’s creative side. From there, Mr. Lowie received classical art training at the acedmie of Ieper & Ghent and the Institute for the Plastic Arts in Kortrijk, Belgium.
                         
Mr. Lowie pursued various artistic fields, taking part with installations in art events such as Fabriek 88 and Metro 89, both in Antwerp, Belgium and Undercover 90 & S&F in Ieper, Belgium. He designed a number of public indoor and park exhibitions for a number of different scientific and cultural projects while having selected shows in New York, Maryland and Belgium.
 

“Since the last years I have been concentrating solely on painting. My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. How do you paint the feeling of waking up in the early hours of the morning with all your negative feelings or pure happiness? How does a first love feel? The loss of a friend the first days of spring, fear of old age. The tale of sorrow or euphoria captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but the deeper meaning even to abstraction? I do not follow a certain style per se. The most important element for me is finding the right atmosphere that explains the above.”

 

 

 

 

 


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