August Art Exhibit

Earl Schofield

Opening Reception
Friday, August 14 at 5:00-7:00pm

Available for viewing and purchases during Dubhub open hours:
Mon 10 -12 , Tues 9am-3pm & Wed 10-3 and by appointment.

Exhibit runs Wed, Aug 12 - Tuesday, Sept 1 (@3pm)

Monadnock Crowned by Earl Schofield (encaustic)

BIO
Earl Schofield has taught visual art at the Dublin School for the last twenty three years. He lives with his two children, a cat and a three dogs. Schofield works primarily in encaustic but has recently been reunited with his first love, watercolor. He can run a chain saw, accessorize a prom dress, loves fast cars, cooks AND cleans, shoots half way decently, has a Doc Martens collection, is incredibly vain about his amazing hair and has been with the same hair dresser since 2002. He has shown work all over New England and nationally. His work is in two museums, a bunch of banks, hospitals and an even bigger bunch of super lucky people’s individual collections globally. He currently has absolutely zero representation and blames in entirely on George Bush and the financial collapse of 2002. He is pretty sure none of this will make you want to buy a painting if you didn’t want one already. https://www.earlschofieldfineart.com/

ARTIST STATEMENT
Painting is for me, a communion with the spiritual. Paintings are prayers, worship, a way to connect with the larger universe whist celebrating and sharing that connection.

The “symbolism” or conceptualization in my work is in the construction of the painting itself, it is in the “how” of the work more than the “what.”  The wax I paint with represents humans themselves. Like people and societies, the wax can be very delicate, but if cared for, can be extremely enduring. It is also eminently flexible, adaptable and capable of nearly endless variation. The layering technique I use, is a metaphor for experience, time, and the passing of generations. Flaws in the paint are like the wounds or imperfections that make us strong and beautiful, like the bark on an old tree, like the strength, calm and fascinating complexity of an elder person.  These “punctum’s“ or holes,  also expose the past we build the present on and add richness to the final layer that is not possible with a single, “new” layer. 

The chaos and complexity of mark making and brush work over a stable composition is a metaphor for the play of Euclidian and fractal geometry in the physical world, and the ebb and flow of systems between chaos and order. I am often inclined to use monochromatic or analogous color schemes and this is simply my attraction to harmony, and aversion to conflict. It also expresses a wish for a world in which man, previously represented in my work by houses, trucks, bridges and the like, is in a symbiotic and sustainable relationship with his environment. The integration of the “figure” and the landscape.