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March Issue 2007
Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Brad Aldridge
Hidell
Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce their
first solo exhibition for Brad Aldridge, Near and Distant Rivers:
Landscapes by Brad Aldridge, on view from Mar. 2 through Apr.
7, 2007.
Aldridge refuses to be complacent. Each new
group of paintings is an attempt to "express the ineffable
beauty I experience in nature," he says, adding, "ineffability,
by its very definition is inexpressible, making it a paradoxical
subject for an artist to attempt, but a worthwhile journey nonetheless
and one where painter and viewer can share common experiences
without necessarily defining them."
Aldridge often seeks out the ineffable through visual metaphor.
A metaphor is a comparison between two things. A successful metaphor
sparks indescribable insight not in the statement of facts, but
rather in the "space" between the facts, where the mind
meditates on the relationships of similarity and difference within
the comparison. "Metaphors exist all around us," Aldridge
says, "I don't have to impose them."
In Near and Distant Rivers, Aldridge
has again delved into nature to find the elements that help him
create metaphors of the human condition. Trees, meadows, streams,
paths, light and shadow are the "words" that Aldridge
juxtaposes. When compared to one another, they trigger what Emerson
called the "far-off remembering of intuition," and that,
Aldridge says, is his goal: to engage the viewer's intuition in
order to glimpse the splendor and spirit of the "fairer creation"
that goes beyond the details.
Near and Distant Rivers represent the artist's ongoing
love of painting water at twilight. "Water has always seemed
mystical and ineffable to me, and twilight, with its shadowed
earth and illuminated sky, just seems to lend itself to a more
metaphysical interpretation somehow," says Aldridge. These
paintings not only represent Aldridge's continuing obsession with
the small stream that runs through his rural Utah hometown, but
also portrays many of his recent journeys in Wales and France.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 704/334-7302 or visit (www.hidellbrooks.com).
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