LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth |
Lifedance - New Works by Murray Archibald |
Continuing a sixteen year tradition, the Blue Moon is once again the setting for Murray Archibald's newest collection of paintings titled Lifedance. The show opens July 6 and runs for the remainder of the month. The opening reception is Saturday, July 8, from 3 to 5 p.m. The title painting Lifedance will be this year's SUNDANCE image and will be auctioned on the first night of SUNDANCE, Labor Day Weekend. "It's full of color and shape and pattern," Murray says of the painting, "and so is the rest of the show. It's an attempt to capture the complexity of emotions and feelings that color, shape and give pattern to our lives. It's about the forces that shape and mold usboth internal and externalboth under our control and out of our hands." The show is composed of two styles of workthe larger paintings, familiar from year's of SUNDANCE prints and a smaller, more expressive series he calls the pulse paintings. "The pulse paintings are like little heartbeats," he says. "A pulse is the very rhythm of lifeit's what lets us know that we're aliveit's the outward sign that our heart is still beating. In this show it is the outward sign that love is and always has been the creative force that gives us life." Other major pieces in the showOne Fine Day, The World In Us, and Emotion join Lifedance in providing a bright, bold explosive celebration of life. "Anyone who knows me well," says Murray, "knows that SUNDANCE is an integral part of my yearly themesit's like a big paintingso perhaps this year's SUNDANCE themethe super-duper ultra-iridescent rainbow revolutionsums it all up. It's all part of the same thingit's all a part of this dance we call life." |
LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 10, No. 8, June 30, 2000. |