David Luksha

David Luksha

May 11, 2005 – Jun 06, 2005

Corrupted by Revisionist History
22 in x 24 in
oil on layers of wax on panel

Exhibition: May 13 - June 6

Exhibition Preview: May 10 - 12
Opening / artist reception 6:30 - 8:30 pm May 13th

Employing layers of wax, oil paint and glazing, this new suite of work investigates the tension created by the ongoing battle between impulse and reflection, emotion and concept. As was the case with my previous body of work "Contingencies", each piece is initiated with automatic painting techniques coupled with repetition and mapping.

Layers of wax and oil paint are applied in succession; opaque and transparent paint surfaces become suspended in the wax, which is alternately poured and brushed, torched and melted. As the process is repeated, elements that have disintegrated reappear in a new form, for a decidedly organic visual effect. The resultant images are formed by what is on the surface, in the surface and beneath the surface. At this point coloured glazing and clean layers of wax are applied in varying degrees in an attempt to solidify the visual field.  Sometimes the surfaces are forced into alternate formats by melting through or scraping away layers of colour. These processes are meant to mimic the effect that a point of view or a position that one holds, whether it be political, religious, aesthetic etc., alters the ones processing of daily events.

Artist Work
A Crisis of Truth
24 in x 22 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$2500 CDN

Artist Work
A Redefined Pastorale
22 in x 24 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$2500 CDN

Artist Work
A Sudden Shift in Focus (diptych)
18 in x 32.75 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$2600 CDN

Artist Work
Affected by the Different Pulls of Present and Past I
24 in x 22 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

Artist Work
Affected by the Different Pulls of Present and Past II
24 in x 22 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$2500 CDN

Artist Work
Affected By the Different Pulls of Present and Past III
24 in x 22 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

Artist Work
Altered by the Perspective of an Earlier Time
33 in x 36 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$4900 CDN

Artist Work
An Intrusion Upon Private Territory
48 in x 44 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$6500 CDN

Artist Work
An Inversion of Perspectives
28 in x 36 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$4500 CDN

Artist Work
As If By Silent Convention
28 in x 36 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$4500 CDN

Artist Work
Debasing the Coinage of Truth
33 in x 36 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

Artist Work
Dependent Upon the Pleasures of Subversion
44 in x 48 in
oil on layers of wax on panel

$6500 CDN

Artist Work
Devolving into a State of Lingering Tension
44 in x 48 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$6500 CDN

Artist Work
Filtered Between Inside and Outside
11 in x 12 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$1100 CDN

Artist Work
In Transition Once Again
22 in x 24 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

Artist Work
Looking for a Place to Live
22 in x 24 in
oil on layers of wax on panel

Artist Work
Moving Towards a Theory
38 in x 33 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$5350 CDN

Artist Work
Of Some Private Reverie (diptych)
22 in x 48 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$4750 CDN

Artist Work
Stigmata / Transfusion
18 in x 17 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

Artist Work
The Sensation of Some Change in the Specific Gravity of Things
55 in x 60 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$8500 CDN

Artist Work
The Tyranny of Rhyme and Reason
55 in x 60 in
oil, glazing & wax on panel

$8500 CDN


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