Reception May 3, 6-9pm; Exhibition May 1-31, 2018
Spark Arts is hosting a reception for our featured artist for May, Rob Nilsson, with music provided by Frank's Funk Band.
Poet, painter, filmmaker. Rob Nilsson was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and went to Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. At Harvard University, he studied art with Lux Feininger and Morton Sacks and exhibited in galleries in the Cambridge/Boston area. He lived in Africa in the middle sixties and had a painting studio on the island of Fernando Po, off the coast of West Africa. He has been painting in the Bay Area since the early 70s.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The language of painting survives the language of the intellect, the narrow politics of special interests, the cheerful cant of the critics. A painter stands in front of the work as a living rorschach, an unknown link umbilical to the canvas in front of him.
America succeeds in transforming all pure impulse into market niches. This makes monetary gain the false jury of expressivity. America favors inner sterility and outer violence. This leaves the people weak because they lack valued experience of the mythic, mystic, sensual, passionate, obstinate, cruel, decadent. They can mount an army which kills thousands of enemies, but they can't believe their own animal impulses.
I am an American and grew up this way. This is one of the reasons I search the dark alleys of impulse, desire, hunch, improvisation, searching to enter the energy streams which link me with the trapped universe of energy. I want to be a part of a new revolution in the arts which seeks out and liberates.
In front of my canvas I follow an impulse first, a subject second, love of materials third. I enter into the picture and lose myself in its flow. If I emerge with a painting it's the record of what I did in finding it. I hope that it possesses the inner power of its inspiration and the outer tensions that strain towards the next picture, the next encounter.
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Spark Arts is hosting a reception for our featured artist for May, Rob Nilsson, with music provided by Frank's Funk Band.
Poet, painter, filmmaker. Rob Nilsson was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and went to Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. At Harvard University, he studied art with Lux Feininger and Morton Sacks and exhibited in galleries in the Cambridge/Boston area. He lived in Africa in the middle sixties and had a painting studio on the island of Fernando Po, off the coast of West Africa. He has been painting in the Bay Area since the early 70s.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The language of painting survives the language of the intellect, the narrow politics of special interests, the cheerful cant of the critics. A painter stands in front of the work as a living rorschach, an unknown link umbilical to the canvas in front of him.
America succeeds in transforming all pure impulse into market niches. This makes monetary gain the false jury of expressivity. America favors inner sterility and outer violence. This leaves the people weak because they lack valued experience of the mythic, mystic, sensual, passionate, obstinate, cruel, decadent. They can mount an army which kills thousands of enemies, but they can't believe their own animal impulses.
I am an American and grew up this way. This is one of the reasons I search the dark alleys of impulse, desire, hunch, improvisation, searching to enter the energy streams which link me with the trapped universe of energy. I want to be a part of a new revolution in the arts which seeks out and liberates.
In front of my canvas I follow an impulse first, a subject second, love of materials third. I enter into the picture and lose myself in its flow. If I emerge with a painting it's the record of what I did in finding it. I hope that it possesses the inner power of its inspiration and the outer tensions that strain towards the next picture, the next encounter.
Reception May 3, 6-9pm; Exhibition May 1-31, 2018
Spark Arts is hosting a reception for our featured artist for May, Rob Nilsson, with music provided by Frank's Funk Band.
Poet, painter, filmmaker. Rob Nilsson was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and went to Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. At Harvard University, he studied art with Lux Feininger and Morton Sacks and exhibited in galleries in the Cambridge/Boston area. He lived in Africa in the middle sixties and had a painting studio on the island of Fernando Po, off the coast of West Africa. He has been painting in the Bay Area since the early 70s.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The language of painting survives the language of the intellect, the narrow politics of special interests, the cheerful cant of the critics. A painter stands in front of the work as a living rorschach, an unknown link umbilical to the canvas in front of him.
America succeeds in transforming all pure impulse into market niches. This makes monetary gain the false jury of expressivity. America favors inner sterility and outer violence. This leaves the people weak because they lack valued experience of the mythic, mystic, sensual, passionate, obstinate, cruel, decadent. They can mount an army which kills thousands of enemies, but they can't believe their own animal impulses.
I am an American and grew up this way. This is one of the reasons I search the dark alleys of impulse, desire, hunch, improvisation, searching to enter the energy streams which link me with the trapped universe of energy. I want to be a part of a new revolution in the arts which seeks out and liberates.
In front of my canvas I follow an impulse first, a subject second, love of materials third. I enter into the picture and lose myself in its flow. If I emerge with a painting it's the record of what I did in finding it. I hope that it possesses the inner power of its inspiration and the outer tensions that strain towards the next picture, the next encounter.
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Spark Arts is hosting a reception for our featured artist for May, Rob Nilsson, with music provided by Frank's Funk Band.
Poet, painter, filmmaker. Rob Nilsson was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin and went to Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. At Harvard University, he studied art with Lux Feininger and Morton Sacks and exhibited in galleries in the Cambridge/Boston area. He lived in Africa in the middle sixties and had a painting studio on the island of Fernando Po, off the coast of West Africa. He has been painting in the Bay Area since the early 70s.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The language of painting survives the language of the intellect, the narrow politics of special interests, the cheerful cant of the critics. A painter stands in front of the work as a living rorschach, an unknown link umbilical to the canvas in front of him.
America succeeds in transforming all pure impulse into market niches. This makes monetary gain the false jury of expressivity. America favors inner sterility and outer violence. This leaves the people weak because they lack valued experience of the mythic, mystic, sensual, passionate, obstinate, cruel, decadent. They can mount an army which kills thousands of enemies, but they can't believe their own animal impulses.
I am an American and grew up this way. This is one of the reasons I search the dark alleys of impulse, desire, hunch, improvisation, searching to enter the energy streams which link me with the trapped universe of energy. I want to be a part of a new revolution in the arts which seeks out and liberates.
In front of my canvas I follow an impulse first, a subject second, love of materials third. I enter into the picture and lose myself in its flow. If I emerge with a painting it's the record of what I did in finding it. I hope that it possesses the inner power of its inspiration and the outer tensions that strain towards the next picture, the next encounter.
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