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| Age: | 40 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Ontario |
| Country: |  Canada |
| Zodiac: |  Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19) |
| Last Login: | Oct 9, 2008 (426 days back) |
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About Me |
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| "Geoff Farnsworth's recent paintings explore portraiture as a vehicle for stylistic innovation. Each works to animate a multi-level experiential direct approach to the action of painting. The results are visually challenging. Using surface and painterly effects, and bright Pop colours and brushwork that recall the works of Larry Rivers and Robert Rauschenberg, these paintings work on two levels. The first is that of representation and the subjects they portray whether classical or contemporary. The second level is the interplay between the abstract and painterly and figural outlining. The portrait figures become abstract devices for expressing the energy of the act of painting. They likewise build a landscape of psychological and meditative states, using brushwork, layers, and visual effects, while respectfully maintaining the subject and portrait theme. Farnsworth achieves a level of intensity that makes these works sublime, almost mystical meditations on the artist's approach to art and life.While beginning his art training in Vancouver at Capilano College, Emily Carr, and the Federation of Canadian Artists, Farnsworth then went on to the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York from 1997 to 2002. Recent shows have been held in New York, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Toronto, and Stockholm, Sweden. An artist to watch, and who continues to grow as a painter."John K. Grande (excerpt from review in Vie des Arts, No. 202 Spring 2006) Poolside Rita, Oil on Canvas, 46 x 40 inches. SOLD | |
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| "My paintings explore a relationship between figurative and abstraction in order to meld unconscious probing and stylistic innovation with a meditative figural base. It is important to me that the paintings work well as collections of shape, colour, texture, and energy, while also building a compelling image. Working with people and objects from my personal world as well as from classical and contemporary culture, I focus on maintaining a balance between plan and accident, known and unknown, restraint and exuberance. I ignore the portrait or landscape or whatever it may be turning into as often as I try to see it. I do not want the parts to be overly submissive to the whole. I want a blue smear of paint through a head to be as much of an “object” in the painting as the eyes. I like it when a chunk of head, disappearing into a corner of abstract landscape, serves as strongly to help the viewer feel paint texture as to be reminded of a skull. My figures look out as much into mindscape as landscape." Sixteen of my paintings made over the last 6 years in 4 cities (New York, Toronto, Thunder Bay and Niagara Falls) will be featured alongside the work of 2 Swedish painters: Peter Dahl, a renowned artist and household name in Sweden since the 1970’s, and Eva Zettervall. The exhibition space is a vast 2 level zone that was once a horse stables, being appropriate since my most recent paintings explore different directions with the motifs of carousel horses and a dragon-faced rocking horse. In certain ways I am revisiting my Toyflesh series where images of children and partial figures ride enigmatic beasts to reinforce themes of mystical journeying and spliced consciousness in environments both landscape and mindscape. 8 Foot, 9 Months. Oil on Canvas, 28 x 96 inches. Anti-Gravity Beverage, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 36 inches (Muse Gallery, Toronto www.musegallery.ca) The A-OKay Cafe, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 60 inches. SOLD Hanna & the Fish, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches. Available at Loch Gallery www.lochgallery.com Sherry, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches. SOLD Icecream Girl #3, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 24 inches. SOLD..................................................... Blue Willow, Oil on Canvas, 34 x 46 inches. www.canvasgallery.ca | |
I'd like to meet:See more of my work at Canvas Gallery (canvasgallery.ca), Muse Gallery (musegallery.ca) and Loch Gallery (lochgallery.com) in Toronto. And my website: gfarnsworth.net Blue Chair Mother & Child, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches. Available at Canvas Gallery www.canvasgallery.ca Knight, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 46 inches. Girl in Yellow, Oil on Wood Panel, 24 x 24 inches. SOLD |
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Music:Lucid, Oil on Panel, 30 x 36 inches. SOLD Mother & Child, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 24 inches. Available at Canvas Gallery www.canvasgallery.ca The Mirror, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 inches. Available at Loch Gallery www.lochgallery.com New Horizons, Acrylic on Canvas, 66 x 66 inches. |
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Movies:3 Wom(an), Oil and metal on Wood Panel, 36 x 48 inches. The Island, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches. Available at Loch Gallery www.lochgallery.com |
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Television:Girl in Winter Landscape, 2008, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Available at Loch Gallery www.lochgallery.com Gillian, Oil on Paper, 15 x 11 inches. SOLD Red Sphynx Potion, Oil on Canvas, 54 x 48 inches. SOLD Vermassa, Oil on Canvas, 54 x 48 inches. |
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Books:Wonderland, Oil on Canvas, 34 x 46 inches. Tricycle #5, Oil on Wood Panel, 36 x 30 inches. SOLD |
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Heroes:Tea Girl, Oil on Canvas, 54 x 48 inches. Head with Brown Object, Mixed Media on 300lb Paper, 23 x 15 inches. SOLD Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 54 inches. SOLD |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Occupation: | Artist |
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