Pushing the Envelope

Start date: Friday, January 4, 2008
Event is ongoing: Until Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The show is being sponsored by Imagination Celebration of Fort Worth, an arm of a national organization, whose goal is to encourage, stimulate, supplement and incorporate visual and performing arts programs within the public school systems of selected areas around the United States. Currently, the Imagination Celebration is in a 3 year program-offering that celebrates “the Art of Exploration” in myriad ways.

I have been selected as an ‘exploratory visual artist’, because of the contemporary processes that I currently use to express my creativity…also, perhaps, my attempts to take ‘digital graphic’ work into the realm of ‘fine art’.

Never one to follow a traditional path, I am primarily a self-taught ‘painter’ who for many years decorated furniture, walls and canvases. For the last 7 years, I have been using drawing, painting, photography and computer graphics –combining some or all to achieve the artistic results I was seeking. Generally, I work on a large scale as the current combination of tools allows me to capture many more varieties of subject matter, and play with compositions and scale on a level I had been unable to satisfy.

"Media and processes always shift and evolve exploring new inspirations and challenging boundaries", wrote Chip Lindsey of the Museum of Science and History. Consistent in my work is a life long fascination to express what I see and feel – things and ideas – especially the mundane. Inspiration comes from everywhere – personal collections of ‘things’ – mine, family and friends, the title of a book, nature, travels, commissions and creative missions. Exposing the beauty in the over-looked, or making something important. When drawing, for example, I seek to strip away the obvious, find the strong lines – the core lines supported by few others – that reflect the energy of the person and the pose. The opposite may happen in my photography, as I try to capture the whole in an effort to share those finds with the viewer. - Georgia James Clarke

The entry gallery presents the many and varied media and subject matter; not quite a retrospective – more a colorful collection of samplings from “hotel projects, collections and creative missions”. They illustrate the diverse media that Georgia uses, especially digital based graphics and inkjet printing on small and mural sized pieces with a few early pieces in acrylic and oil.

Information from the center's site