Gallery Show: Wanderlinger Art Gallery

After the success of the Arts@Erlanger exhibition in the first half of this year I was pumped to be accepted into the Wanderlinger Art Gallery Halloween/Autumn show in Chattanooga. For a guy like myself who just started painting a little over a year ago, this felt like a big accomplishment and I’m pretty dang proud of what I’ve done so far.

The show at Wanderlinger is in the Wanderlinger Brewing Company location in the Choo Choo. I love the Choo Choo. Love the history of the building and over the past few years it has turned into quite the gathering place. Even though I wish it still saw some passenger trains, I always enjoy a stroll down its platforms.

For the show I brought two pieces. The first was my horse skull piece seen hanging in the above image titled, “Where You Once Stood.”

For this painting I wanted to use the skull of a horse, an animal that was a constant companion to someone and all that was left of that relationship was this fragment of bone. I’ve been thinking about losing friends as I go through life and get older and I wanted to make something that reflected the sadness I felt at the death of those relationships that once were so meaningful.

The second piece I exhibited is my latest lantern called, “ The Last Watch.”

I had in my mind a coal miner or a railroad employee checking the line in the middle of the night to make sure there was no funny business happening. The man swinging the lantern is out of our field of vision with only the tilt and bob of the lantern to show us it’s being held at all. I thought both of these pieces had an Autumnal feeling that would fit well with the show and happy the show’s director, Rik, agreed.

To my knowledge neither have been purchased yet and will be hanging until the rotation for the November show in a week or so should you care to see them in person.