G L E N N N E S S
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G L E N N N E S S
"Early on, my work began to focus on an idea of "isolation without loneliness,” (a familiar theme found in all of my work). My aim is to combine the use of a classical understanding of atmospheric light, combined with an intuitive approach to color and form.
“Creating a visual narrative in realism, imbuing a cer tain mood and presence, (or absence of presence). Much of the imager y itself is set around California pools and urban settings, as well as the backroads of the high deser t of the West Coast.”
Fall Passing
"An achievement is a bondage, it obliges one to a greater achievement."
- Alber t Camus
Long Distance Call
"At
ever y sunrise,
I
renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion."
- Czeslaw Milosz
Together Alone
Oil on canvas (framed) 24" x 18" $5,500
World
of her Own
Judging the Competition
"We all know that Ar t is not truth. Ar t is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."
- Pablo Picasso
Quiet Mor nings
oil on canvas (framed) 30" x 40" $8,800
"The Joy that isn't shared dies young."
- Anne Sexton
A Night of Whispers
The Day’s Reprieve
"Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never wear y? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it."
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“While I was painting Grasping at Melville, the painting by Deborah Davidson we have in our entrance, seemed to ascribe itself to the narrative of the painting. I was listening to an audio book of Moby Dick. Hence, all thought went into blending the visual narrative into the painting.”
Oil on canvas (framed) 24" x 36" $8,500
- Glenn Ness Inquire
