Yo, Boss

Endeavor
Part 2

Yo, Boss. I'm looking for a walk to work program, something with good benefits and time off, something that takes me far far away, on voyage to an art for art's sake place. Something that takes me past Art Produce every damn day. Why? Because this place might be the birth place of some kind of art movement. I'm talking Part 2 of what hopefully will have a Part 3 and other parts beyond the flimsy fodder of day to day art entrees.

The show is evolving through the millennia of these average times. Universal themes are emerging, crawling up on the shores and gasping gill-free. What's in the show? Birth as a metaphor for artistic creation. The feminine power of the universe celebrated as the source of art. The mechanics of creation and creativity. The gestation of genius. The flowering fruit of loss. The heart of Art and the ability of Art to transcend. Art is my God to be and how great thou art once I walk and grasp with my opposable mind.

Quickly now, for the show is ongoingly going on.

Paul Brogden's "Edgar" presents a brooding portrait of the godfather of the Twilight Zone and the perfect icon as the first piece in this collection of work. It gets the viewer, the voyager into the other-worldy mindset of the "Untitled Guru" levitating shaped painting by Zuriel Waters. This is even more fun and games than his Part 1 offering. And this time, in this Part 2 extravaganza, Bill Pierce delivers a piece with pop. Pierce’s "Art Takes Lives" print leaps to a statement of truth. But Billy won’t be a hero, won’t be a fool with his life.

Nuvia Crisol Guerra's "Uterine Cycle" shows a 4 piece row of different emotions surrounding the power of the womb. Well, at least that's what someone said, so we'll go with it here. That okay with you, Boss? It is a smartly painted set that speaks volumes more than most feminist work I've seen over the last ten years. It celebrates what is.

And then here it is, the work that I looked for in Part 1. Barrett's work again gives me pause. What creatures of what kind of mind are these? What jittering, jangling motorized emotives are these? I laugh. I laugh harder. Then I really laugh. Why do I want to look away when I cannot stop looking on? These creatures and dimensions defy their space; they give rise to an alternate realism. But then, where art thou reptilian brain, but in Part 2.

The labor of the body and the light of the mind roll along with balance in Christopher Raymond's "Self Portrait." Dave Miles Mind must be evolving still. His "Simians Of The Atom" is a portrait of the evolution of Art as well as humans, unless of course, you are a creationist. Then it is none other than Adam and Eve after the garden is gone.

Perry Vasquez Shows a well painted centralized heart surrounded by flowers in "Inquietum est cor meum". The fragile power of beauty is suspended in the universe and the pumping power driving creativity.

The same artists from Endeavor Part 1 stepped it up with even better work for Part 2. Of course, Part 1 was on view much longer, but Part 2 was the show to see. Too bad it will be down by the time I have this uploaded. But, remember the artists from this show; they are worth the time and effort of a following. These artists do art when it is so much easier to do nothing or just comment (yours truly included). Of all the diploid zygotes, in all the wombs of the entire world, why are these artists here in this place? Who cares? It is just a damn good thing they crawled up on their shores and dared to gasp.