Hal B. Rhodes III Exhibition

Grapes and Avocados

Thrown and Sculpted Earthenware maximum height 6"

Finger Cups

This photograph presents the slow process of the earth reclaiming its offspring. The glove is slowly being transformed to soil by the moss. Through decay it is merging back to the earth from whence it originated.
12" x 18" unframed

The Old Garden Glove

Human Nature

Holga Negative on fiber paper 7”x7”

Untitled

Pen 14" x 17"
The theme for this work is merging: in particular, the merge between the Old World and the New World. As I was studying this world event, it seemed that the people involved might not have been too thrilled about it. The inhabitants of the Old World were on an adventure to find gold and to spread God. Despite the goal of their conquest, many were lost at sea or ravaged by famine and disease. For the inhabitants of the New World, their fate was far worse. Their land was taken by intruders from a faraway land. Also, the explorers brought diseases that wiped out a large percentage of the new world population. With that said, this piece acts as a thought that someone might have had at one time about the merge. It’s made to be a more comical piece rather than historical. Thankfully, the long term effects are more positive rather than negative.

Oh Ship.

Encaustic 36"x 60"
“Drift" was created through the ancient process of encaustic painting. Layer upon layer luminous color, carving, and texture interact. The word encaustic comes from the Greek word, enkaustikos, meaning "to heat" or "to burn". The method of painting with wax came from ancient Greece where shipbuilders painted the hulls of their ships to seal, protect and decorate the surfaces. This led artists to use encaustic for easel painting and decoration of clay and marble sculptures, and on the ancient Fayum portraits of Egyptian mummy casings. The medium was lost in obscurity after the seventh century until twentieth century artists brought it back into popularity.
I find the process of encuastic painting to be limitless in possibility. In "Drift" handcrafted paints made of beeswax, resin, and natural earth pigments were applied hot on a heated wooden panel; each layer was then fused with a torch to the layer beneath. Through means of subtraction and translucent to opaque layers of color, the composition was revealed. It is my my hope that the viewer can empty, merge, or drift consciousness, finding a moment of visual serenity.

Drift

Mixed Media, 37.5 bottom width and 24.5 top width, 42" high, 7.5' deep

Comforter

Mixed Media, textiles 17” x 11”

Merry Marry

Digital Painting 5220w x 4026h, at 600 dpi

Hal B. Rhodes III Exhibition

Items in this collection

Grapes and Avocados

Finger Cups

The Old Garden Glove

Human Nature

Untitled

Oh Ship.

Drift

Comforter

Merry Marry

The Transcendent Man

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