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Paintings by Jim Coates
1.
"Exciting View Revealed," Oil on Canvas; 30x20
2.
"Light Sourcery," Oil on Canvas; 24x16
3."Natural
Attraction," Oil on Canvas; 30x20
4.
"Nature's Path," oil on canvas; 24x30
5.
"Paradox of Pleasure," oil on canvas: 24x30
6."Canyon
Sign," oil on canvas; 24x30
7.
"Nature"s Claim," oil on canvas; 24x36
8.
"mind matter," oil on canvas; 24x36
9.
"Ripple," oil on canvas; 24x36
10.
"Truth of Phenomena," oil on canvas: 24x36
11.
"cocoon," oil on canvas; 24x36
Jim
Coates's work is the first of, what the Copper Mine Picture Cafe
hopes to be, a long and continuous list of shows by a variety of artists. Dr.
Coates has been painting for well over 20 years, developing a style that merges
areas of long term interest and concern. On a purely formal level, where sign
engagement of perceptual data is a factor of shape, color and value, there is
often a refiguring of the visual landscape to suggest layers of interpretation
that might not otherwise be apparent. In some works the changes in a given subject
are minor, in other works the setting is purely imaginaary. Major considerations
for these "sign" distributions are aesthetic in nature. From the perspective
of theory, aesthetic meaning ( the
felt
experience) presupposes a Freudian subtext as well as certain environmentally
conditioned responses. These psychological issues are veiwed from the platform
of a phenomenological take on the world; this leads to a meta-theoretical position
that Heidegger referred to as Being, or the idea of feeling ( aesthetic meaning)
as a kind of absolute truth.
