Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Stan Sporny
I wrote an art review for a show that Marshall University Professor Stan Sporny currently has up at the
Callen McJunkin Gallery.
He passed away unexpectedly after I wrote the review (or maybe before, I'm not sure.) Either way, I did now know of his passing when I wrote it, nor did I ever formally meet the man. Everything I knew of him, I got out of his work. Mostly what I took away from his work was a palpable feeling of peace and solitude in the woods. That he died while hunting alone in the woods indicates that he was very skilled in representing exactly what his life was all about in his work. His work possesses that coveted "intrinsic meaning," as he was able to communicate a specific meaning, quite concisely, with his painting.
I am getting to know his body of work further, and his death is clearly a very sad loss for the art community.
Read the review, and check out his work at: http://stanleysporny.com/
memorial site:
http://stanley.sporny.org/
Callen McJunkin Gallery.
He passed away unexpectedly after I wrote the review (or maybe before, I'm not sure.) Either way, I did now know of his passing when I wrote it, nor did I ever formally meet the man. Everything I knew of him, I got out of his work. Mostly what I took away from his work was a palpable feeling of peace and solitude in the woods. That he died while hunting alone in the woods indicates that he was very skilled in representing exactly what his life was all about in his work. His work possesses that coveted "intrinsic meaning," as he was able to communicate a specific meaning, quite concisely, with his painting.
I am getting to know his body of work further, and his death is clearly a very sad loss for the art community.
Read the review, and check out his work at: http://stanleysporny.com/
memorial site:
http://stanley.sporny.org/
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