Brin Levinson, Chuck Bloom, Yo Mutsu: Art opening @ Goodfoot

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The Goodfoot will have an art opening, Last Thurs, June 30th from 5-12. The show will be up until July 26th . The artists this month are Brin Levinson, Chuck Bloom, Yo Mutsu. Ryan Organ, Carrier & Sunday Grip will be DJ'in the opening.


Brin Levinson An unfinished dream is something you can become obsessed with. I attempt to create an open-endedness to the stories in my paintings. There is a luring mystery in a moment recorded by only one picture. My artwork is largely inspired by industrial areas, architecture and the strange beauty that I see all around. By altering our recognizable world, I attempt to create a heightened reality instilled with nostalgia and deja vu. I find the juxtaposition of urban landscapes and nature much more interesting than either one element on it’s own. These days there is a clear divide between the natural world and the human one. As we destroy nature at a staggering pace on this planet, nature slowly tries to reclaim everything and eventually it will. The proof of that is the cracks in the pavement. My current works are acrylic and oil paintings on canvas. What I love about painting is the ability to build a visual image completely from scratch. I combine fragments of realism and imagination in my compositions to create a world balanced on the edge of familiar and foreign. My grandmother, Dagmar Wilson, was a landscape painter in Loudoun County, Virginia. Being surrounded by her work has influenced my vision, especially my paintings of buildings and cityscapes. My artwork can be seen in galleries, art venues and events in Portland, the Northwest, and California.



Before the painting is finished, the vision is already fading to memory. I can only hope that I’ve understood enough of the message to help me further along this tiresome trek. Most of the time these “visions” are not complete – just bits and pieces of things, like symbols. The paintings themselves are very organic in nature. They all stem from my established visual vocabulary, but evolve in ways that are not premeditated or even foreseeable. In this way I work very closely to André Breton’s notion of automatism, which he believed must be present in works of art or writing in order for it to remain in the sphere of Surrealism. It is mandatory as a Surrealist that artwork explore a mental space outside the field of normal awareness, in a place where consciousness, unconsciousness and all things possible and impossible exist as one. At the nexus of my work is a concern and philosophy about the environment and man’s place in it. Global warming, overpopulation and the breakdown of basic human communication and the resulting “fractured humanity” we endure are at the forefront of my concerns; however, elements beyond my conscious knowing seep in. Many elements in my paintings are of the seemingly familiar or mundane, but evade a total accessibility and a clearly defined meaning. In this way I speak in a kind of “visual metaphor,” or perhaps what some have called “enigmatic poetry.” Doorways and windows are passages from the outside to the inside, from one place to another, that is their definition and I use them no differently. They can be bricked or boarded up, open to darkness, a stormy horizon, an idyllic interlude or even a source of water for things in one world from another. Depending on how they are depicted they can represent the hope of another unspoiled world or a reminder of what is left behind or avoided. They are opportunity or the lack of opportunity. Opening the windows of minds, tearing open the locked doors of our rationalism creates endless possibilities for the future of humanity. This manipulation of subject matter is natural and balanced. Ultimately, the psychological state of events is for you, the viewer, to extrapolate – the results of which you may find you least expected. My ultimate goal is to walk right into one of my canvases and never return, but the door opens and the door closes in a blink of the eye. The barriers are endless and the map I followed getting here is torn and unreadable. Perhaps I’ve pretended to know where I was all along just to feel more comfortable, but it doesn’t make it any less real. An artist does what he must. I am a Surrealist because this how the world presents itself to me and I in turn relate to it. I am a thinker and a visionary. I am hopeful and curious and apocalyptic. I am alone in this place and I am trying to find my own answers, this is why I paint what I do. And, my art will never match a couch.


Yo Mutsu Works with the images of the Japanese school girl with the current (and sometimes past) social problems with kids. Such as abnormal desire for sexual intercourse, the need for self injury, the social pressure that leads to suicide, the ecstasy of seeing fellow classmates getting tortured... Yo uses these images and ideas and paints with the Shunga (a traditional Japanese form of art but more focused in eroticism and/or grotesqueism) style to express his art form. Sometimes in each of his paintings, Yo paints in his wife as one of the girls (either background or sometimes the main person) and paints himself in as well in this dark and sad but living world.


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