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Sound defines space for our bodies. Without thinking we hear the information in sound and judge our position in space accordingly. In his improvisational paintings, Gary Denmark seems to listen to color in just this way. He follows an inner rhythm with his tools, placing colors and textures intuitively. Like a dancer following choreography, Denmark follows an inner sense of direction. "At some point I stop and observe the cacophony of rhythms I've put down and try to make sense of it. I always feel I’m building out an environment, a place to go into," he says.
Denmark’s paintings often begin with shapes and colors inspired by an actual place. He divides his time between a studio in San Francisco and one high on a mesa in Southern Utah; both sites have generated series of images. He painted Vulcano after visiting the island of the same name off the coast of Sicily. The work may begin with a shape or color reminiscent of a remembered place. With each new mark he drives the work closer to his sense of the "place" it could be. As he describes the process, "I try to establish a climate. Climate is intimately tied to temperature, which could also be color temperature. For example, in Vulcano there are the red and orange flashes of sulfurous heat but also a blue that cools it down. I played with the memory of the volcanic island surrounded by water."
Both natural and architectural environments suggest images to Denmark. Spiderwalk began life as a small maquette that he made of a fantasy landscape. He then translated the maquette's footprint onto canvas, where it became the underlying structure of the gestures and forms.
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