June 3, 2010 CVMC’s second exhibit in the new art gallery opens on Friday June 4. It is an exhibit and a tribute to well-known local artist Charles A. Woodard. The show will be open to the public when the lobby area is open, 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily. Selected pieces will be available for purchase.
Woodard grew up with art. Both of his parents graduated from the Boston Museum School. It was by accompanying his father, also his first mentor, on landscape painting jaunts that Woodard became attached to the painting process as a way of seeing and experiencing landscape.
“The beauty of painting from life is in the excitement of apprehending the moments that capture a subject’s story. Even when the subject is a model in cooperative stillness, the truths are in the moments that must be stitched together to make up a meaningful sense of his/her story in paint. From the outside, I suppose, painter and subject can look pleasantly quiet, even when painting fast subjects such as sheep. But inside? For me,” said Woodard, “chasing moments has some of the characteristics of a Nantucket sleigh ride: one has to hang on and look for the big waves.”
“Thus every painting composes a small journey of stitched moments,” he continued. “This is particularly true in painting animals or active people, where personality and story is constructed from a commonality of attitudes between- and sketches of - the participants of a particular setting. There’s a sort of golden intersubjectivity to be discovered there, if one is lucky.”
A graduate of Goddard College, Charles was a naturalist and teacher of ecology at the college level. In 1994 he began reviving his artistic attention, studying figurative drawing and painting with artist Bill Brauer. In 2000 he decided to honor his artistic aptitude, and turned to painting full-time. He currently works in oil, pastel, and charcoal, and applies them to landscape and figurative subjects. He has since won a number of awards including 2003: Finalist, 20th Annual Art Competition, Artists’ Mag., for landscape “Goldenrod and Lace,” 2002, oil, 16" x 20".
2004: Purchase Award, National Arts Club, 32nd Annual Exhibition, Pastel Society of America, for landscape “The Pleasure of Grass,” 2004, pastel, 13" x 17."
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