DUSK TO DUST

An exhibition of new ash and oil paintings at Silo118

After a short hiatus A Secret Plot is back, except this week I have an announcement instead of an article.

During the month of October I will be presenting new ash and oil paintings in my first solo exhibition in Santa Barbara in almost six years. The exhibition is titled ‘DUSK TO DUST’ and it will run October 4th through the 31st. In true October fashion, and the celebration of the dead, the reception will be held on Friday the 13th from 5pm to 7pm.

While racking my brain over what content I should include in the press release and various promotional communications, I opted to forego lenghty and wordy formulations for a few short and direct axioms meant to reconstruct the meaning of the title and the pictures that will be on view in the gallery. I believe there is something to be said about the notion that while a picture tells a thousand words, the reverse may also be true, that one word can tell a thousand pictures.

I do hope that some of the readers of this newsletter may find this idea compelling and if they’re in the area, will come and see the exhibition in person.

See you on the other side

DUSK TO DUST

New Work by Tom Pazderka

“A work of art is most compelling when it does not openly divulge when it was made, when it resists the temptation to go with the times and be subsumed by the ‘now’.

Painting mirrors the untimeliness of cloud watching and contemplating an old photograph.

We are all watchers of the same phenomena.

Ash and oil is just another alchemical blend for producing images.

The anxieties of today are a mixture of nostalgia for yesterday with the paranoia over tomorrow. Paranoia and nostalgia – perhaps paranostalgia?

I want to believe.

Now more than ever.”

On the walls at Silo118

October 4th - 31st

Artist reception

October 13, 5 - 7 p.m.

Silo118, 118 Gray Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 301-379-4669

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