Channels (2005-2008)
Unknown Cultures 
(2005-2006)
God, the Opera  (2005)
Propagandanista 
(2005)
Paintings Your Aunt Would Have Loved, God Rest Her Soul (2004)
Crucibull (2003-2004)
 
 
  
 

 

 

 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

BILL GUSKY

God, the Opera
(2005)

My gestures began to slow down from their Crucibull fever-pitch, and I became interested in some gestures becoming highly distinct from others, the object-hood of distinct gestures.

I started grabbing white office paper and throwing down gestures using whatever came to hand: ballpoint pens, watercolor, crayons, gouache.

In some cases I'd throw down a pattern, then toss it aside and not see it again until a few days later. Then I'd head back into it again with a new perspective.

A theme began to emerge on its own. They began to look like scenes from a weird religious opera.

Untitled - 2005 - gouache on paper - 14 x 11" Untitled - 2005 - gouache and pastel on paper - 14 x 11"
Untitled - 2005 - gouache and ball point pen on paper - 14 x 11" Untitled - 2005 - gouache and pastel on paper - 11 x 13"
Untitled (Mighty Eucharist Ponies) - 2005 - gouache and ball point pen on paper - 11 x 14" Small Universe - 2005 - enamel on canvas - 16 x 16 1/4"
Too Late, You're Naked - 2005 - gouache and pastel on paper - 14 x 11"

 

                                                   

©2006 Bill Gusky