Farrell Brickhouse | Staten Island, New York USA

October, 2009

My new work focuses on life since moving to Stapleton, Staten Island after 30 years in downtown Tribeca.

What is invigorating is how all these images from my past are being restated in new ways, as new forms with old ties emerge, how I have access to their original content with a deepened understanding of how they can continue to speak for me in paint. I am allowing myself to explore the full range of my artistic history, as a mature artist I have this large vocabulary to draw from. I have found the ability to speak to everyday experiences and tell stories that is liberating. Art history looks different to me as I see my concerns expressed in a whole new set of artists and old ‘friends’ offer new gifts.

My paintings are a personal odyssey, a vehicle to carry me forward and find some deeper unity in what is happening in and around me. I believe the making of a painting needs that moment of epiphany and a trace of how the imagery conveyed thru paint was discovered and experienced by the artist. Not a graphic notation of the language of experience but the mystery of it.

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SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2007   Art Lab @ Snug Harbor, S.I., NY
2006   Wexner College, Spotlight Gallery, S.I., NY COAHSI Award.
2000  Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
1999  Ohio State Univ., “Pixels and Pigment”, Col. OH
1995 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1992 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1991 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1988 Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1983 Galleriet Lunds, Lunds, Sweden
1982 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1979 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1978 N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978 Julian Pretto Gallery, New York

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