{"id":8330,"date":"2013-08-15T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2013-08-15T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:15:14","slug":"the-architecture-of-disassociation-new-paintings-by-carl-blackledge-at-southside-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-architecture-of-disassociation-new-paintings-by-carl-blackledge-at-southside-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Architecture of Disassociation: New Paintings by Carl Blackledge at Southside Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #004eff;\">Artist&#8217;s Reception: Thursday, August 15 from 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_90491.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8332\" alt=\"IMG_9049\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_90491.jpg?resize=600%2C481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_90491.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_90491.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>New Orleans painter, <strong>Carl Blackledge<\/strong> will exhibit new oil paintings at Southside Gallery from August 6th \u2013 August 31st.\u00a0 The exhibition will feature fifteen Abstract Expressionist paintings, all completed over the past year.\u00a0 This will be Blackledge\u2019s first solo exhibition at Southside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_905272db26.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8333\" alt=\"IMG_905272db26\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_905272db26.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" \/><\/a>With my paintings I&#8217;m attempting to expand a space the viewer might be occupying at that time and place. It really is an architectural pursuit. I am trying to achieve the ability to put the emotions of the viewer in a feeling of place instead of observing a place. Ideally I want the art to be perceived as the structure that is supporting the space.\u00a0 Anything can serve as aesthetics in a place.\u00a0 I think Motherwell explained it best when he said &#8216;Feeling must have a medium in order to function at all; in the same way, thought must have symbols. It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being, just as do responses to the objects of the external world\u2026 The medium of painting is such changing and ordering on an ideal plane, ideal in that the medium is more tractable, subtle, and capable of emphasis (abstraction is a kind of emphasis) than everyday life.\u2019&#8221; &#8211; Carl Blackledge, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Reception: Thursday, August 15 from 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm &#8211; New Orleans painter, Carl Blackledge will exhibit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":8333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[1842,1178,1840,1839,1844,1843,802,1845,1841],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localart","tag-abstract","tag-art-2","tag-blackledge","tag-carl","tag-expressionism","tag-expressionist","tag-gallery","tag-reception","tag-southside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_905272db26.jpg?fit=600%2C479&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}