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February Issue
2011
Eye Level Art in Charleston, SC, Features
Works by Brian Bustos
Eye Level Art in Charleston, SC, will present
the exhibit, Good Morning Spider, featuring works by Brian
Bustos, on view from Feb. 5 through Mar. 16, 2011. An opening
reception will be held on Feb. 5, from 7-11pm, with special musical
performance by Chris Thomas.
Bustos offered the following statement about this show, "One
morning I woke up and went to take a shower. There was a big brown
spider on the wall of my bathroom. I was very afraid of it. I
debated over taking a shower for a while, just looking at the
spider there on the wall. Eventually, I thought that I should
kill him and take a shower. So I did kill him. I have always regretted
this."
"Good Morning Spider is a title taken from a Sparklehorse
album. Mark Linkous, the sole member of Sparklehorse passed away
last year at a young age. This show is partly a tribute to him
and his music. Music that has been very important in my life and
gotten me through some troubled times. The show and the work is
also a meditation on finding balance between living in the modern
world and the natural world. I am stricken with terror sometimes
when I try to grasp the technological world around me, it being
so impersonal and fast paced, yet I know it must be embraced.
I am sometimes fearful that people will not know what the pages
of a book feels like, how raw wood smells, or how it is to simply
be outside. These paintings and drawings are about being present
in my own world and not running to hide in the woods forever."
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 724-510-9778 or visit (www.eyelevelart.com).
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