Glenn Ness "A World Away" | Sue Greenwood Fine Art | Continues through January 15!

GLENN NESS

A Wo r l d Away N ove m b e r 2 0 – Ja n u a r y 1 5

Painting is a way for me to tell stories, celebrating our need to connect to each other and to our surroundings. It is not enough for me to just paint a man walking up the stairs. I am intimately involved in that moment as soon as I choose to paint it. I wonder about His story and how it relates to mine. Often I choose not to paint a figure in a scene at all, which overstates an obvious absence. To me, this implies a narrative that lends itself to being internalized in some way.

I like to paint both around urban and rural scenarios. My current work is a cross section of both. Cityscapes give me an opportunity to visually explore very complex multiple perspectives and light sources from scenes we may walk through every day. The rural pool scene with its undulating lines and shocks of light and color have a hypnotic effect on me that pulls me inward. Both have a subject matter that celebrates the everydayness of being in the moment and not missing it.

My work is a visual commentary on my perceptions of a psychological and spiritual need to connect; to our surroundings and to each other.

I explore city scenes, interiors of restaurants and places we may frequent, or even rural back yard pools; to set a stage for a narrative that explores this quandary. Our lives are full of places and people that come, or who have gone, or those we may long to know. My paintings give the viewer the permission to superimpose and examine their own feelings pertaining to the narrative given in each image; i.e. the ubiquitous empty chair implies a presence, or absence that may trigger memory or hope, the story everyone has but many hold secret. Or the empty quiet room that imbues isolation without loneliness, allowing us the freedom to follow thought. City streets where we are surrounded by humanity and the crush of advertisements and faces yet be totally alone.

I love realism for its ability to express the abstract. I love the process of oil painting for its ability to translate my own need to confess, to connect, to tell a story we may all read ourselves into.

Glenn Ness

Cover: Homecoming, 2017, 36" x 48" (framed) oil on canvas $10,000

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Nampa Dry Cleaners, 2017 12" x 16" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $3,500

Cafe, 2017 16" x 12" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $3,500

Waiting for Every Man, 2017 5.75" x 12"

(framed) oil on canvas over panel

$1,300

Mocha Java, 2017 16" x 12" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $3,500

Amelia, 2017 24" x 40" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $8,000

Pool Man, 2017 16" x 12" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $3,500

Last Resort, 2017 24" x 36" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $7,600

Pushing Further South, 2017 18" x 12" (framed) oil on canvas over panel $3,700

Beyond, 2017 5.75" x 12" (framed

d) oil on canvas over panel

$1,300

Chrysler Entrance, 2015 24" x 36" (framed) oil on canvas $7,500

Diving Board, 2014 20" x 16" (framed) oil on canvas $4,500

Pay Phone, 2015 16" x 12" (framed) oil on panel $3,500

Lisa Waiting, 2015 24" x 36" (framed) oil on canvas $7,500

Morning Lesson, 2016 20" x 30" (framed) oil on canvas stretched over panel $6,000

Pasadena Antique, 2015 16" x 12" (framed) oil on canvas $3,500

Unforgotten, 2016 16" x 24" (framed) oil on canvas stretched over panel $4,500