Art representing 20 years exploring line, form, and light to communicate one man's understanding of the human condition.
Art representing 20 years exploring line, form, and light to communicate one man's understanding of the human condition.
The art category could be considered mixed media, abstract representational, assemblage, collage, painting (a work of art made by gluing things to the surface).
I’ll call it Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage.
The COVID pandemic provided opportunity to ponder and create. These are my efforts to capture my moments and emotions during this time in history.
Representing 20 years of artwork exploring line, form, and light as vehicles of communicating the depth of one man's understanding of the human condition.
Life is full of stumbles and starts. My traditional drawing and painting was not getting me where I needed to go.
A fascination with the natural world along with a profound interest in the human condition have culminated in the artist’s unique and enigmatic works.
The works shown here are representational. Contact me for a personal showing.
My early influences were, Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and the impressionist. The colors, textures, movement, and light composed so skillfully to create moods and feelings in my mind that were beyond words. Their work felt more alive, more real, and present in that particular moment in time.
Life is full of stumbles and starts. My traditional drawing and painting was not getting me where I needed to go. After many experiments, I found using soft objects to create form and movement felt right. Using different objects to create line, shape, texture, space, and form opened up a third dimension and made the art more immediate.
I found a natural inspiration for my art in the plants and flowers, tree branches, mountains, clouds, animals, and the human body. These organic, free-flowing forms, those curvy, leathery lines, and those natural colors, are arranged to communicate a feeling beyond words.
Acrylic or oil paint over the prepared cloth, twine, wire, hemp, or leather, is formed into these concrete visual components. These elements, working together with the addition of color and light, and the basic principals of visual art, organize and harmonize themselves, and often mingle and contribute to one another creating new compositions within themselves.
When the light changes these lines, textures, and forms create shapes in three dimensions. Theses organic shapes, create an interactive form of art. When the light changes, or the perspective changes, the colors and shapes change. This changes the design and alters the mood. The piece is constantly in motion, constantly changing, as the daily light changes,
Words like hate, kindness, agitation, awe, fear, love, death, sex all are associated to a feeling or emotion that can be felt somewhere in the body. My art visually explores some mood or perception that will connect with some personal or social need, some feeling, some word from deep inside, and successfully expressing it to educate the viewer on some important but forgotten spiritual commitment to the human condition.
I aspire to produce art that is pleasing to the eye as well as conjure emotion. Art should say something, ether to the viewer or the artist. It works, or it doesn’t. Words can be subjective.
“Portrait of Taṇhā 3” 2021
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
30” x 40”
$1400
“Shall not covet.”
We all have a desire for happiness, that feeling of deep, abiding fulfillment, satisfaction, and completion, and a longing to be free from the suffering in our lives. But why do we seek it in places that lead to suffering and never to real happiness?
Taṇhā (Pali) literally means "thirst," commonly translated
“Safe at Home” 2020
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
48” x 36”
$1,200
“Can a place of peace and safety, in a world of anger and threats, be found anywhere?”
We exist in a world so large, so powerful, so resilient that it does not need to acknowledge our existence. Thousands can be destroyed by floods, hurricanes, earth quakes, wildfires, famine, pestilence, or a world wide pandemic. We are helpless p
“6 January” 2021
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
30” x 42”
$1000
“The us, and them”
This artwork is not a political statement. It is a depiction of what I saw happen on January 6 2021. Various people saw different things that day and people will see different things in my art. You will see what you want to see.
I saw the result of what happens when you choose the lie over the truth, when you glorif
“EXIT 140” 2020
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
48” x 24”
$900
“Looks like a busy night at the adult bookstore.”
We exist in a world where we can alter our environment to suit our needs. We are the dominate species on the planet and we will rule over our circumstances with our technology, our economy, our education, and our machines. We can create power and light. We can build hospitals and walls. W
“Feeling Blue Jean” 2021
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
11” x 14”
$250
“I could tell that they was mine, from the oil and the gasoline.”
Each pair of blue jeans has a story. In the weak morning light I pick up my jeans off the wooden floor and feel the weight of my wallet and keys in my pockets. Greasy stains and a damp, earthy smell reminds me of all the miles I have traveled and the people that h
“Under the Oaks of Mamre” 2005
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
40” x 60”
Private Collection
“Genesis 18:1–14; get it now?”
“Clash of Worlds” 2010
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
18” x 24”
Private Collection
“Ever, and forever conflicted over the world I belong.”
“Orange Kitty” 2012
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
10” x 14”
Private Collection
“Donation to a charitable event supporting the animal shelter.”
“Black in Bass” 2012
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
24” x 18”
Private Collection
“First printed in spring issue of Wild Ohio Magazine 2013 featuring Black Bass fishing.”
“Lilly Makes Three” 2003
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
36” x 24”
Private Collection
“Special commissioned artwork to celebrate the new horse.”
“Resting” 2012
Acrylic based, Mixed Media Collage
72” x 36”
Private Collection
“Being mindful of living a life in peace and at ease. It last belonged to a good tattoo artist I knew.”
Chuck Greenwalt, born 1955 in Columbus, Ohio into a family of artist. His father was an artist, professionally. His mother was an artist but never knew it. So Chuck was encouraged at an early age to pursue his creative passions. One of his passions was drawing and painting and he excelled his contemporaries from kindergarten through high school. He believed he could become an artist.
His father encouraged him to pursued his education by declaring “So, you think you want to be a starving artist? Well, I’ll tell you, you’ll starve.”
After serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, after working various jobs for several years, he attended the Columbus Collage of Art and Design and graduated with a BFA in 1983.
Early 2001 Chuck started experimenting and investigated different ways to capture feelings and ideas and express them in a unique way so the viewer could experience, and interpret them.
In 2013 Chuck retired from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife as the Graphics Arts Administrator working as the art director and production manager for the state agency. His spiritual connection with the land, wildlife, and nature lead to his career for the Division of Wildlife in Ohio. His true passion is creating the unique and expressive works of fine art that are displayed in private collections around Ohio.
His work explores the expression of concepts through line, color, shape, light, texture, and form. Each piece created can change with the light or direction in which it is viewed and allows the viewer to see different things and interpret the piece through the lenses of the viewers minds eye.
He currently lives in Mount Gilead with his wife, her horses, several stray cats, and a pack of dogs.
A fascination with the natural world along with a profound interest in the human condition have culminated in the artist’s unique and enigmatic works. A self-described symbolist, Tracy combines elements of nature, historical references and personal iconography in an attempt to create her own narrative – with the goal to evoke similar contemplations in the viewer.
Tracy received a BA from Ohio University which was followed by a successful career in wildlife illustration. She has received numerous awards for her work including the 2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
Tracy is currently represented by Studios On High Gallery in Columbus, Ohio.
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