Mostly Real: Paintings by Guy Colwell
September 2nd-October 15th, 2023
Join us for an Artist talk with Guy Colwell
Saturday, October 14th at 4pm
Treats and libations will be served. Free and open to the public.
Guy Colwell unveils his latest collection of paintings at the highly anticipated art show titled “Mostly Real” at The Compound Gallery. “Mostly Real” will open its doors to art enthusiasts and collectors on September 3rd 6-9pm. The show will run until October 15th. Guy Colwell, known for his extraordinary ability to capture human emotions and social commentary through his brushstrokes, challenges our perceived reality by carefully placing his subjects in unconventional settings and situations.
Works will be available for pre-sale beginning Friday, September 1st 6pm PST at the button below.
Statement from Guy Colwell:
Since the Vietnam War era, when I was jerked out of a lazy abstract expressionist approach to art while responding to the social, political and creative turmoil of the times, I have thought of myself primarily as a Social Realist. But I have also authored at least 800 pages of comic book/graphic novel stories and art over the years. The powerful influence of comic books, comic strips, cartoon animation and the need to find some comedy within all the grim reality with which my work attempts to grapple, there are interwoven clear satirical, sardonic, sarcastic and surreal flavors that show through. This aspect of what I do has led me to redefine myself a little more broadly with the term Figurative Social Surrealist. While philosophically I feel a sort of duty to do art that is reality-based and engages pictorially in public discourse about war and peace, freedom and repression, poverty and wealth, the struggle for survival and preserving a livable planet, I do my best not to be overcome by pessimism and cynicism. I feel messages about the direction that humanity is taking have more impact if they can be both entertaining and universal. I don’t know if my art can change the world, but at least I can hope that a little compassion for our bumbling species by a bumbling artist can be discerned in these images.
