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Drawings by Jim Coates
May 28, 2008 thru July 13, 2008
Opening Reception:
May 31 from 1pm to 5pm

List of Works....All the Works

1. Alien Garden
2. Ancient Calendar
3. Antidoor
3. Apparition
4. Boulder Tree
5. Brain Cell
6. Choices
7. Circleation
8. Coffee Cups
9. Community
10. Doodle
11. End of Structuralism
12. Entrance
13. Escape
14. Forever
15. Inch Clock
16. Light My Love
17. Locket
18. Matter Distribution
19. Memories
20. Memories of You
21. Monads
22. Planet Poles
23. Power of the Will
24. Precious
25. Rockhound
26 Solstice
27.Timecraft
28. Timeout
29. Timewall
30. Timewarp
31. Tomorrow
32. Triple Vision
33.Universal Chain
34.Waterway Overpass

The current show at Copper Mine Picture Cafe presents a collection of drawings by Jim Coates. The 34 works, which are about 8.5 x11 inches in size, are intended as sketches for both calendars and paintings. Parts or all of each sketch eventually finds their way into paintings where they are intertwined with various other images derived from a multiplicity of intentional sources. The sketches themselves, are for the most part based on fantasy, imaginary and surreal concepts, that touch apon a variety of topics and issues. Alien Garden, for example, touches on the theme of unknown forces guiding or controling man's destiny, both on a daily and long term basis, while Defeat of Structuralism, focuses on the elements of phenomenology and intentionality. Each drawing attempts to engage the veiwer through both the technical elements of drawing and the conceptual and aesthetic values of theoretical and meta-theoretical issues.