Gay E. Lasher: July 11, 2013 Cherry Creek Arts Festival

Thursday, July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013 Cherry Creek Arts Festival

This past weekend I wandered through this year’s version of Denver’s annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival. As usual, a wide gamut of work from soup to nuts and many repeat exhibitors from past years. Two of my favorite artists from this year's show were Michel Delgado of Key West, Florida:

and the work of Oluf Nielsen of Washington State:

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Artist Statement

As an artist, I have always been concerned with the ideas of transformation and mystery, the boundaries between reality and illusion. I am intrigued by the potential that even pedestrian images or subjects have for being reborn in a completely new and different way.

I am excited by the transformation of ordinary photographic images into compositions of intense color and dynamic composition and also pleased by how the use of black stitch sharpens the image and creates depth. While the specific sources of the original photographs vary, I am particularly interested in construction sites for the multitude of shapes, colors and objects they contain and because they are transitional spaces in the creation of new structures for re-created uses.

In my current work I change ordinary digital photographs into abstract compositions using features of Adobe Photoshop. Small areas are then greatly enlarged to produce the final image which is then printed in panels on cotton and machine stitched. The abstractions are concerned with formal elements such as color, shape, line and the texture provided by stitch.