Bikeride!!, The Land in Close Up Series
2014
Ritchey-ZMax Mountain bike Tire Monoprint in Oil and City of Calgary Road Pickle in Encaustic on Pigmented Ricepaper and Cherrywood Panel
21x32x2 inches
Instead of a detached view of a distant scene,
BikeRide!! gets up-close, very up-close;
a communication of simple direct experience.
It is Person interacting with Land;
A personal negotiation with the
not-so-solid ground and changeable weather
of April in Alberta.
Landscape paintings describe humans
by describing their environments.
By landscape I don’t mean a land fully tamed,
but I do mean a land that is
subject to human interaction.
No pretense of wilderness here,
I am actively searching for human influence.
I want to locate interconnections between
the way I sense,
the way I understand and
the way I accumulate
my firmly grounded sense of place.
BikeRide!! gets up-close, very up-close;
a communication of simple direct experience.
It is Person interacting with Land;
A personal negotiation with the
not-so-solid ground and changeable weather
of April in Alberta.
Landscape paintings describe humans
by describing their environments.
By landscape I don’t mean a land fully tamed,
but I do mean a land that is
subject to human interaction.
No pretense of wilderness here,
I am actively searching for human influence.
I want to locate interconnections between
the way I sense,
the way I understand and
the way I accumulate
my firmly grounded sense of place.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.