Creativity Explored, the premier nonprofit visual art gallery and studio for artists with developmental disabilities, is pleased to announce Quality of Line: Charles Cruz and Jay Herndon on view April 21 through June 1, 2016. Curated by Studio Manager and Visual Arts Instructor E. Francis Kohler, this two-person exhibition of work by Charles Cruz and Jay Herndon features diverse techniques of line-making coupled with gestural, and often unconfined, portions of hue and tone.
Artists Cruz and Herndon have developed unique styles of mark-making that reveal the way in which things are constructed, formally as well as anatomically. The artists’ respective techniques may appear casual or erratic at first glance, but upon closer examination, they demonstrate a confident sense of touch in response to the subject at hand, whether it is a person, place, or imaginary beast.
While Herndon's forms frequently suggest faceted or multi-planed objects, Cruz's work tends toward masses of overlapping curlicues and scalloped line forms. Kohler remarks, “I like that their work is simultaneously similar at times (a ghostly, delicate quality of line) as well as dissimilar (Herndon's occasional angular and graphic lines contrast with Cruz’s frequently more circular mark making).”
Charles Cruz (b.1946) joined the Creativity Explored studio in the early 1990’s. Cruz was featured in Faces, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2011 and Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA in 2004. Jay Herndon (b. 1957, San Francisco, CA) joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2004. Herndon has been featured in over twenty exhibitions at Creativity Explored.
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Artists Cruz and Herndon have developed unique styles of mark-making that reveal the way in which things are constructed, formally as well as anatomically. The artists’ respective techniques may appear casual or erratic at first glance, but upon closer examination, they demonstrate a confident sense of touch in response to the subject at hand, whether it is a person, place, or imaginary beast.
While Herndon's forms frequently suggest faceted or multi-planed objects, Cruz's work tends toward masses of overlapping curlicues and scalloped line forms. Kohler remarks, “I like that their work is simultaneously similar at times (a ghostly, delicate quality of line) as well as dissimilar (Herndon's occasional angular and graphic lines contrast with Cruz’s frequently more circular mark making).”
Charles Cruz (b.1946) joined the Creativity Explored studio in the early 1990’s. Cruz was featured in Faces, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2011 and Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA in 2004. Jay Herndon (b. 1957, San Francisco, CA) joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2004. Herndon has been featured in over twenty exhibitions at Creativity Explored.
Creativity Explored, the premier nonprofit visual art gallery and studio for artists with developmental disabilities, is pleased to announce Quality of Line: Charles Cruz and Jay Herndon on view April 21 through June 1, 2016. Curated by Studio Manager and Visual Arts Instructor E. Francis Kohler, this two-person exhibition of work by Charles Cruz and Jay Herndon features diverse techniques of line-making coupled with gestural, and often unconfined, portions of hue and tone.
Artists Cruz and Herndon have developed unique styles of mark-making that reveal the way in which things are constructed, formally as well as anatomically. The artists’ respective techniques may appear casual or erratic at first glance, but upon closer examination, they demonstrate a confident sense of touch in response to the subject at hand, whether it is a person, place, or imaginary beast.
While Herndon's forms frequently suggest faceted or multi-planed objects, Cruz's work tends toward masses of overlapping curlicues and scalloped line forms. Kohler remarks, “I like that their work is simultaneously similar at times (a ghostly, delicate quality of line) as well as dissimilar (Herndon's occasional angular and graphic lines contrast with Cruz’s frequently more circular mark making).”
Charles Cruz (b.1946) joined the Creativity Explored studio in the early 1990’s. Cruz was featured in Faces, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2011 and Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA in 2004. Jay Herndon (b. 1957, San Francisco, CA) joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2004. Herndon has been featured in over twenty exhibitions at Creativity Explored.
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Artists Cruz and Herndon have developed unique styles of mark-making that reveal the way in which things are constructed, formally as well as anatomically. The artists’ respective techniques may appear casual or erratic at first glance, but upon closer examination, they demonstrate a confident sense of touch in response to the subject at hand, whether it is a person, place, or imaginary beast.
While Herndon's forms frequently suggest faceted or multi-planed objects, Cruz's work tends toward masses of overlapping curlicues and scalloped line forms. Kohler remarks, “I like that their work is simultaneously similar at times (a ghostly, delicate quality of line) as well as dissimilar (Herndon's occasional angular and graphic lines contrast with Cruz’s frequently more circular mark making).”
Charles Cruz (b.1946) joined the Creativity Explored studio in the early 1990’s. Cruz was featured in Faces, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2011 and Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA in 2004. Jay Herndon (b. 1957, San Francisco, CA) joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2004. Herndon has been featured in over twenty exhibitions at Creativity Explored.
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