James Dingman about his December art show : ” I’ve been experimenting with color lately! Actually, I HAD to. I tend to work in lots of blues – it’s my color. But I have a commission to do and the client doesn’t like blue! She’s more into oranges, greens and browns – earthy colors – and that’s not where I usually go. So I did these pieces to make peace with orange. It’s not the easiest color to work with but I came to like it very much! The series is called ‘Orange You Glad We Met.’
While these pieces, like all of mine, were done intuitively over several sessions, I found myself drawn to a plane geometric structure. Horizontal, vertical and circular kept creeping in and gave me a skeleton on which to hang the rest of the shapes and colors. My titles reflect what I saw and felt while creating the pieces but that’s just my idea. I want my work to be as much about what the viewer sees as about what I intended, so I invite anyone looking at the pieces to see them from a little distance first – glean what meaning you can from them – then step in and see what I thought in the title. And, here’s a little tip: your interpretation will always top mine!
The bigger piece is a mini autobiography. It’s a snapshot of my night life over the past few months. I had a bit of surgery earlier this year and one of the end results was a bit of insomnia. This painting expresses that (to me, anyway). I don’t see it as a nightmare, but rather as a time when thought runs free and ideas are put together in different ways. Yes, there are faces and geometries and body parts in there, all intersecting in a sleepless kind of way. As you can tell (go ahead and touch the piece!), the sandman flew over the canvas as I was working on it (I’m talking about the texture!). “
Love it!