Community Corner
Shattered Visions:Portraits Of A City by IAN MOHON
The Coastal Living Gallery presents IAN MOHON in Wickford
March 3 - 28, 2014 (Open by apt, special event & chance.)
Artist Reception: Friday March 14th from 6:00-8:00pm
Born
in Texas and spending a short time in the NAVY, Ian Mohon finished his BFA and
has spent the last 10 years working within New England's finest art galleries. A painter, photographer and printmaker, Ian's
recent work has re-focused on his painting with an emphasis on portraiture both
of architecture and of people. Now living in Providence, Rhode Island with his
wife and daughter he splits his time between family, creating and working as
gallery manager for the Atrium Gallery with the Rhode Island State Council On The
Arts.
His current series focuses on iconic
buildings in Providence and the surrounding neighborhoods. Beginning with a
fractured jumble of images, the artist selects only those that will provide a
broken but truthful representation of the building itself and the personality
of the neighborhood. The buildings are imagined from various angels, broken and
shifted, with colors both heightened and blown out. This technique gives the
works a sense of wonder and confusion as walls move and colors fade; an
analogous wonder the city holds with its faded colors slowly resurfacing, as Providence
re-builds.