Money Trails
Artist Frank Perna presents a new series of representational paintings of scenes from international stock exchange floors. Perna's photo referenced pop-art paintings depict crowd scenes of the frenetic activity of brightly suited teams of stock market traders. These images, culled from photojournalist sources, represent a freeze frame from the onslaught of visual commercial media. The reframed images express movement varying from glacial suspension to high velocity hustle.
Popular media can make the most banal subject into a sensual abstraction. Blurry photography that would have been considered unprofessional in the world of advertising and popular media in the past is now commonly used in expressing today's fast paced society.
All of the paintings are approximately 12"x16", oil on wood. This group of paintings is a continuation of the Obsession series, exhibited in 2002 at Gallery 1313 and at the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery in 2003, in the sense that they both depict crowd scenes of collective ecstasy and collective insanity. The Obsession series featured random arrangements of figurative trophies painted from soft focus blurry photo-references that suggest a questioning of visual perception and materialistic chaos.
Frank Perna
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Frank Perna presents his new painting series "Wetlands" based on photo imagery of the lakes and ponds of the Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park and his own backyard family pond near Apsley. Perna will also feature works from two recent shows in New York and Toronto entitled "Obsession" and "Money Trails". The new works are rendered in oil-stick on vellum. A ten foot pickerel sculpture will be also on display as well.
Upcoming Exhibition 2006:
Apsley and District Studio Tour 2006
Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5pm
Sept. 16th and17th, 2006
Location:
147 Long Lake Road
Apsley, Ontario
Directions: seven kilometers north of Aplsey
on highway 28, to 82 Jeff Road, first driveway on the left.
