The first annual TARFEST, Festival of Film, Music, & Art, featured five
unique artists. The diversity in the styles of each artist is
representative of the diversity of Los Angeles. Here is a brief summary of
the flavor of each:
JANE GOREN
What says TARFEST more than an artist who works in TAR? Jane Goren’s
unusual exploration of the monochromatic world of tar delivers images that
explore the underlying color components in the thick and lumpy tar layers.
Her brush and solvents unleash the browns from the blues and blacks of
this dense medium. Jane admits that her current passion for this product
of crude oil has made her a frequent client to the local roofing
industry. Independent Los Angeles roofing companies are her main
suppliers for the various grades of tar she applies to her canvases.
Explaining that there are different types of tars and various viscosities
with byproduct inclusions, Jane says she likes to add more texture to her
work with pressed-in objects like egg shells and broken glass.
Ms. Goren’s pictures have a visual weight that is characteristic to her
medium. Especially interesting are her pictures of DOORS. I cannot
conclude this brief overview of Jane’s work without mentioning that one of
her tar works collectors is Fidel Castro.
JAY BROCKMAN
Mr. Brockman has revealed his continued fascination for the palm-tree
lined streets of Hollywood with his black and orange, silhouetted
streetscape series called, Hollywood and Sunset. Some of his canvases are
impressionistic with suggestions of automobiles on the busy boulevard.
Others are almost photo-realistic snapshots of a darkened, hodge-podge,
horizontal, old-Hollywood cityscape. But, in each canvas, he deftly
catches the moments of dusk when light falls from the sky, sometimes in a
fleeting lull, sometimes with the city blinking alive in headlights,
stoplights, and flashing neon.
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