ALDEN MARIN: Animals of the Imagination
Curated by Daniel Rolnik and Airom
Raising funds for the canine rescue charity Mutt Scouts https://www.muttscouts.org/
When:
Charity preview benefiting Mutt Scouts: Saturday July 21: 4 -6pm RSVP to Kate@bgartdealings.com
Opening Reception: July 21, 6:30- 9:30 pm
Second Reception: August 4th, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Show runs until August 7, 2018
Where: bG Gallery, 3009 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA
Phone: +1 (310) 906- 4211 Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11:30am-6pm
Website: bGartGalleries.com
Press Contact: Om Bleicher om@bgartdealings.com
Press Packet/Images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ddq6dy6omhy8bu1/AACfLawKK1JIcQRUX8EDB1F1a?dl=0
Alden Marin is both an Artist and a poet. Alden feeds the squirrels that come to his back porch. He gives them names and organic, grade-A almonds. Sometimes he sees a bird while walking down the beach with his paints. Then he’ll pick up a dry stone and recreate what he saw on its surface. Only, it wasn’t really a bird. It was a woman with a funny, feathered hat on and a sarong tied across her waist. Sometimes he sees a cat and will pick up a fallen leaf on which to to paint its likeness. Only it’s not really a cat. It’s himself, or you, or your best friend, or your mother. He has a condition called Pareidolia, where he sees faces in everything including the most mundane objects like discarded packs of cigarettes and silver gum wrappers. Even those things can have lives of their own when attached to Alden’s imagination. And he practices the most brutal form of honesty. Ask him anything and he will give you an answer without hesitation. Alden Marin is an artist that can summarize your life and feelings into a single, beautiful line of poetry attached to a painting.
ANIMALS OF THE IMAGINATION
When you get the urge
To paint a pig &
It turns into a cow
Let it be a horse…
Wings, beaks, claws & tails
Make birds perfect
For painting–they have
So many points and colors
In motion, like a gemstone
Dogs come easily to me
Because I see so many
In my town–they’re
Endlessly intriguing
Friendly one minute;
Savage the next
Cats are about angles,
Cats are cute & cuddly
But remain mysterious;
Cats have it all…
Some days it feels
My head is like a zoo–
I need to get the animals out
Or they might become dangerous;
In the paintings they seem
More harmless & fun.
-Alden Marin 2018
