CLARK WALDING: Evanescence To Open At Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
Fri, May 13
|Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
Clark Walding’s paintings glow. The aching, haunting, mystic blues that he achieves seem to pierce a clean path through the retinal nerve. Image: Clark Walding • breakaway, 2021 • oil, alkyd, and wax on canvas • 35.5 x 33.5 in.
Time & Location
May 13, 2022, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM MDT
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, 554 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is proud to present an exhibition of new works, Evanescence, by Clark Walding, running from May 13 through June 13, 2022. Opening Reception with the artist will be held on Friday, May 13 from 5-7 p.m.
Clark Walding’s paintings glow. The aching, haunting, mystic blues that he achieves seem to pierce a clean path through the retinal nerve, project like a luminous, Buddhist “Blue Sky Mind” onto the back wall of the skull and then melt down the brain stem to finally collect and pool somewhere behind the sternum.
Look, for instance, at the 50 x 40 alkyd, oil, and wax piece, breathe: its deep mineral aquamarine lit by yellow, coursing with undercurrents of green, dappled with bits of icy cyan, and marked by a mysterious dark blue-black form which bleeds a bit of red. Can you feel it? That ice-edged ache, so alive within…