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Post by afr1ka on Apr 9, 2015 6:37:02 GMT -8
Influenced by the Louisiana landscape, Cloninger’s series echo environmental colors and tones. His works yield to a palette of blues, pinks, greens, and tans to provoke an overarching feeling of serenity and peacefulness, and a space of contemplation. Driven heavily by nature and its binaries of chaos and order, Cloninger seeks to create a conversation between environment and medium while obscuring all form and natural geometry. In making paintings that are devoid of figure and gesture, as well as discovering and exhuming the feel of each piece, Cloninger focuses on each painting’s emotive qualities. All figurative representation is abandoned for atmospheric qualities and all colors are displayed at once, layered on top of one another in each work. To Cloninger, this parallels nature in its ability to sway between chaos and organization – when one looks at a vista, there is a ‘random order’ visible, however, up close, nature is messy and happenstance, there is no certainty to it. By obscuring both his subject and brushstroke, Cloninger removes an obvious presence of personality and gesture that has been traditionally expected of abstract painters. For him, the interesting thing is perhaps capturing a broader and more universal voice than his own. Mother Nature on the Run is both a somber and celebratory series dedicated towards the impermanence of human contribution against the relatively staid forces of nature. The works are not focused purely on their ecological influences; however, their emotional availability is rooted in the wonderment of nature.
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