Art: July 2012

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Live Action Painting at Creativa, Cincinnati w/C.T. Rasmuss 'Cradle to the Grave, Universal Thinker'

I will periodically blog details about the presentation/performance I will give for the artist of the month-August at Creativa, Cincinnati; (every 2nd Saturday, next being held Aug. 11th, 2012). The results of the live action painting held at this event will be included straightforward into my solo exhibition on Aug. the 17th friday 6-8p. held at Fairfield Community Arts Center, also a really fine space. This will provide a unique chance for me as an artist to share with anyone who wants to see a fairly large and important piece of the show shift from it's orgination into its overall grand scheme of a gallery; it will be a sort of analogy in which I perceive us someways and many ways. I encourage and greatly appreciate anyone and everyone to see for themselves, by attending both events for the full and absoluste experience:)!

C.T.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Stretching Driftwood B/W Painting from Photograph by C.T. Rasmuss

"Stretching Driftwood" in acrylic, 2005; by C.T. Rasmussen.

A good way to handle desert photographs, is perhaps to start in black and white, void of any color, then start by rendering it through a drawing, then paint via gray scale. I find this sort of effort, a great way to be able to understand the composition in horizon; a meeting between earth and sky...

C.T. Rasmuss

Monday, July 23, 2012

Art Reviews of C.T. Rasmuss

"The work is quite professional in that the artist knows what he is doing with paint, makes a composition with a visual idea in it, and executes it well."
Prof. Peter Plagens, Hofstra, Newsweek art critic; 2008.

"They were hypnotic...The surface detail of each piece is organic and colorful, starring at them one at a time gave me the impression that I was viewing microscopic divisions of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory."

                      AEQAI.com, Dustin Pike; Jan. 2012.

ZipLine C.T. Rasmuss, Acrylic (2012).

"...“contained chaos”, small (8”X12”), mosaic-like works…Probably a dozen colors, glitter and strings of tiny black and white dots swirl in what looks like a bubbling pool of matter from which all life will spring."

                                     City Beat, Kathy Swartz; Jan. 2012, (11-17).

"...much of his work is abstract; sometimes viewers see shapes or patterns not seen by Rasmuss, leading to further discussion and interpretation."

Cincinnati Enquirer, Sue Kiesewetter; Aug. 7 2012.

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