http://www.creepmachine.com/events/photos-paul-chatem-mike-maxwell-shooting-gallery.html :alternative art zine Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.creepmachine.com/events/photos-paul-chatem-mike-maxwell-shooting-gallery.html/comment-page-1#comment-16885 Creepmachine in The Shooting Gallery « Shooting Gallery News Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:35:31 +0000 http://www.creepmachine.com/?p=2707#comment-16885 [...] One of the things I always enjoy about Paul Chatem’s shows, are how all the paintings tie into an overall theme much like a comic does. The theme of these works were the Industrial Revolution, with many of the characters also taking on more animal forms. All of the paintings had this amazing aged quality to them, the metal parts were rusted, the color palette looked weathered and the most noticeable additions was gears and cogs added to the larger works and making up the bulk of some of the smaller ones. For this set of works Paul said that he got a few books on clock making and basically learned how to put it all together while making the paintings. In the end Paul had made works that are not only exciting to look at, but are designed for interactivity. Spin the wheels on these paintings and they jump to life as seen in the video linked above. It’s such an amazing idea and I do hope that more artists push themselves to try something new like this. We are accustomed to keeping our paws off the art we see in galleries, no matter how much we may want to handle them, so it’s a very odd experience and one could see the apprehension that most patrons in the gallery had. It took them a moment to feel comfortable touching the art, but once they gave it a try you could see the excitement each person felt at being an active participant in this exhibition. -Creepmachine [...] [...] One of the things I always enjoy about Paul Chatem’s shows, are how all the paintings tie into an overall theme much like a comic does. The theme of these works were the Industrial Revolution, with many of the characters also taking on more animal forms. All of the paintings had this amazing aged quality to them, the metal parts were rusted, the color palette looked weathered and the most noticeable additions was gears and cogs added to the larger works and making up the bulk of some of the smaller ones. For this set of works Paul said that he got a few books on clock making and basically learned how to put it all together while making the paintings. In the end Paul had made works that are not only exciting to look at, but are designed for interactivity. Spin the wheels on these paintings and they jump to life as seen in the video linked above. It’s such an amazing idea and I do hope that more artists push themselves to try something new like this. We are accustomed to keeping our paws off the art we see in galleries, no matter how much we may want to handle them, so it’s a very odd experience and one could see the apprehension that most patrons in the gallery had. It took them a moment to feel comfortable touching the art, but once they gave it a try you could see the excitement each person felt at being an active participant in this exhibition. -Creepmachine [...]

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