After my recent Solo show at Lemberg Gallery I've been back in the studio making
new work. The result is an ongoing series titled simply - The Stripe Paintings - Strata.
I have a reoccurring dream where I am passing through the ground. Not necessarily
tunneling, but sort of out of phase with the matter of this world. "Passing through" like
a ghost. Sometimes I descend many miles – through dirt, clay, trash, bones, mud, oil,
water, magma, etc. These dreamscapes hint at the sediment of the past and eerily trace
forward our inevitable inclusion in Nature's compost pile. The Stripe Paintings represent
this frozen non-latent picture of the solid block universe where everything is everywhere.
Two of the paintings from this new series will be on view at Wayne State University's
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery as part of the exhibition "Painting Coast to Coast."
Opening reception Friday January 21st 2011
-Mark Sengbusch
image: Central Wave Strata, 23.5" x 34"
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Exhibition:
Painting Coast to Coast
Dates:
January 21 through March 11, 2011
Panel Discussion:
Thursday, January 20, 6-7:30PM (at the Shaver Music Recital Hall)
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 21, 5-8PM
Hours:
Tuesdays through Thursdays 10AM-6PM and Fridays 10AM-7PM
The James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History's
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery is pleased to present
Painting Coast to Coast
Over one hundred and seventy years have passed since Delaroche viewed the Daguerreotype, the first successful
photograph, and supposedly uttered the phrase "from today, painting is dead". Since that time, painting has
continuously evolved through a number of styles and philosophies, including such disparate approaches as
hyper-realism, material celebrations of paint itself, and conceptual investigations. In the contemporary art world,
painting is alive and well as artists pull from all aspects of the medium's history while continuing to invent novel
applications. Painting Coast to Coast brings together exciting works of current art from across the United States
exemplifying variety and energy.
Exhibiting artists include Rollin Beamish, Linda Besemer, Morgan Craig, Adrian Deckbar, Angela Dufresne,
Chris Gallagher, Dick Goody, Laurie Hogin, Ashley Hope, Chris Hyndman, Matt Martin, Larry Bob Phillips,
Holly Roberts, Mark Sengbusch, Kevin Tolman, and Alison Wong
This exhibition has been curated by Adrian Hatfield and Margi Weir.
A panel discussion will be held on Thursday, January 20, from 6 to 7:30PM at the Shaver Music Recital Hall
(next door to the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery). The opening reception is on Friday, January 21, from 5 to 8PM.
The James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History is a division of Wayne State's College of Fine,
Performing and Communication Arts, educating the next generation of visual artists and art historians. Wayne State
University, located in the heart of Detroit's midtown cultural center, is a premier urban research university offering
more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students.
