Parkpoint Healdsburg
The artists exhibiting at Parkpoint Health Clubs are members of the club or our very own staff. The Buchanan family (Club owners) are delighted to showcase the art of their members and staff, and feel blessed to have their clubs enjoy such beautiful work. They are grateful to have so many talented artists in all three clubs. It has been a pleasure to share their appreciation of art with all the members and Parkpoint community.
If you have interest in showing (and selling) your artwork or photography, please send a link to your website or photos of your work to amberc@parkpointhealthclub.com. Displays change bi-monthly.
Stop by to see the current exhibit on from Parkpoint member and artist:
GARY WOLFE
Gary Wolfe describes his approach to abstraction: “I see my paintings as segments of the way we perceive our world. We can’t look both in front of and behind ourselves at the same time, but we’re aware nonetheless. We carry the sensation of everything around us. My paintings are about combining those sensations and views into a single story that has been segmented. Those story elements move in a manner similar to elements of both conceptualism and cubism. Movement is implied as a shift of focus from front to back, side to side. The segments incorporate elements of the whole, as if the viewer might turn their head or look up or down while viewing the same scene. My focus is how to represent, in paint, the flow of water, the path of a cloud, or the changes in the light. These are not scenes, they are transitions, they are shifts that represent time and our position in relation to those events in time.”
The career of an artist often leads in many directions. Those directions are usually in the pursuit of a livelihood, an ability to sustain a life and still answer the call to create. Gary Wolfe has combined careers as an painter, sculptor, printmaker, furniture designer & maker, restaurant designer, curator, museum preparator, gallery director, graphics artist, teacher, and house remodeler into a common thread of creative flow to sustain his creativity, life, and livelihood. The exploration of forms images and materials can often spill into multiple approaches to his creative output. There will often be sculpture and photographs laying alongside the paintings that are currently in process in the studio. The concept dictates the approach he takes with materials. Wolfe has worked primarily as a painter since moving, with his wife, to California in 2019. His landscape-based abstract paintings explore largely alchemical elements that are not based on the representation of landscape, but the emotional and conceptual aspects of the subject. References to water, fire, marine layer (air), and earth are the foundations that underly his paintings. Light and shadow underpin the elemental references in his painting to provide a sense of place, time of day, or mood of the subject.
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