Bethany J. Carlson

Dimly (After T.M)

2018

This 17.5 x 35 inches black and white chalk drawing on paper represents a Greek landscape. Two olive trees are in the foreground, with the countryside extending behind in the distant horizon. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties, he visited Kythera, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since then, the island has become the primary reference of his creativity. Using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-year-old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...

An old tree already dead overgrown with moss in the forest thicket. The tree trunk has already been eaten by a bug, and its picturesque texture with a variety of tonal nuances attracted me as a researcher. I watch...

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At the center of this large-scale black and white charcoal and pastel painting, a diver launches himself from untold heights, frozen at the peak of action against an ecstatic plume of clouds. Zalopany excels at painting with light, often abstracting areas of a composition with explosions of brush strokes and impossibly smooth blending. The cloud mass at the center of Diver is at once a liquid pool and O’Keefe’s Jimson Weed...

Executed in black, grey and brown, this monumental charcoal and pastel painting conveys the mythic drama and beauty of an active volcano. Rising in the shape of a wide, low cone, the...