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After The Blow, etc.

7/12/2019

One more post showing work derived from the May 22 tornado in Jefferson City (I get the feeling everyone is getting tired of them). Only a handful of the works included in my ‘After The Blow’ collection on display at Capital Arts have been posted here, and a number of additional works live in my portfolio. I’m posting many of them here in this slideshow, for the record if nothing else.

In a few months, the world will have moved on to the next disaster. The people, as they say, will forget.

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Capital Arts will be hosting a reception for its current exhibition from 1-4 p.m. this Sunday, July 14. Don’t miss the opportunity to see my ‘After The Blow’ collection, along with works from many other local artists. Wherever you are, get out this weekend and see some art!

NOTE: Fifteen of these works depicting Jefferson City, Missouri’s May 22 tornado damage have been compiled into an artbook, which may be viewed and purchased at Capital Arts in Jefferson City, or purchased on this website in either 10-inch paperback or signed 12-inch hardcover.

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Curtis Hendricks

All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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After The Blow, etc.

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