Near and Far Afield

Artists

• Nick Blosser

Statement

Nick Blosser
Near and Far Afield
October 2 - 26, 2024
Opening reception: Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm with a short conversation between the artist and curator Linda Tesner at beginning at 4pm.
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A painting may be biding its time just beyond my door, or nearby in places I frequently pass by on a walk through my neighborhood but didn’t notice on previous occasions. A painting may be waiting in a place I’m new to or sometimes visit only occasionally. (Recently I am more receptive to finding source material away from my familiar surroundings, as though I’m letting down my defenses to my assumed self-imposed idea that you have to live somewhere a while before you can paint it. Perhaps the way I pictorially experience nature is an inward thing that is not as dependent as I assumed on my having a history with a place). But I do seem to hold fast to the notion that my eye is attracted to incidents within nature, i.e., forms, shapes, and their combinations that some people may be indifferent to or ignore, though not by choice. Thus, I think that I am not a “scenic “ painter in the conventional sense by choice. It is just who I am. I enjoy finding significant form and beauty in the ordinary. The byways.

I do enjoy browsing through the paintings of other artists. I imagine that I share some of these artists’ temperament and choice of seemingly unassuming subject matter. A short list of artists I find restorative include: early 19th century English painter, Samuel Palmer- especially his early Shoreham period. And, Charles Burchfield, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Giorgio Morandi. If any of these are unfamiliar to you, I highly recommend you check out their work.