For immediate release.

‘Edges’ where the line draws the borders between forms and shapes and allows us to recognize our surroundings..

Yves Bodson and Sheldon Tarrant will present ‘Edges’ from October 15^th through October 31^st, at the Ocean Front Gallery in Venice, California. 801 Board Walk, Studio #4.

 Yves Bodson will present 12 original digital prints of photographic works in large dimensions.  Sheldon will present a time line of drawings across 6 framed original drawings. 

 Edges.

It was during the Renaissance that drawing and painting three-dimensional scenery began to concern artists.  They used mathematics and close observation to invent ‘linear perspective’ a technique that allows the reproduction of distances and structures looking like three dimensional in a two dimensions artwork.

 Since then, photography came along and allowed to represent real world three-dimension with realism and increased details.

Yves Bodson is presenting at the Ocean Front Gallery in Venice, a new collection of completed fine artworks produced with the help of new mathematical models programmed to extract, from original photos, edges and lines that draws the abstracted simplicity of objects and characters present in his photos.

Yves’ technique is pushing beyond simple graphical image manipulation by allowing the precise selection of photographic elements that separate two or more areas.  With such elements, Yves isolate the visual design of shape and forms.  Such a technique also allows for color selection as well as processing a specific location of a photo so as to increase the visual importance of a curve or the thickness of a line.

 Yves present in ‘Edges’ a series of original works from photos taken in Venice, California.  Each work is familiar in structure, but at the same time, very new in term of visual effects.

 The third dimension here is less important than in his previous collections shown in Las Vegas or in Paris.  The return to line drawing effects and simple line art alike minimize the intent of a third dimension.

However by the scale of the artworks presented, some are more than 70 inches wide over 24 inches tall, Yves delivers a photographic visual performance that captures the imagination and generates deep individual interpretations.  The ‘Edges’ collection is composed of 12 major pieces.

All artworks exhibited are unique and original pieces that will not be duplicated. 

As in past shows, Yves has invited another artist to share with him the space during the same period.  The reason is that Sheldon’s work is coming from traditional art drawing of portrait and full body and represents the extreme opposite side from Yves’s work.

 Sheldon Tarrant..

Sheldon Tarrant, native of San Diego, California, has drawn the figurative portrait for over fifty years of his life.  Auditing art in classes at Chouinard and Los Angeles Art Center in the late fifties and early sixties, Sheldon quickly developed his own precocious line with sensitivity and continuity of forms and rhythms.

Inspired by the muse of everyday life, he began drawing his first landscape, still life and architectural drawings in 1960 while residing in Hamburg Germany.  Sheldon continued drawing portraits of his own life.  His mature period of the figure began to evolve when he moved into an art studio in Venice, California in the early 70’s.

Using female models for his figurative work, Tarrant introduced the elements of eroticism in his works, which dominated his drawings until today.

In picture framing, he has made his mark with original designs and presentations of works on paper.  This is a period where he worked spontaneously with a broad range of models willing to ‘sit for him’.

Artists such as Egon Schiele, Henry Matisse and August Rodin had a very deep influence on Sheldon’s style in drawing and rendering.  The movement of line is fleshed out with dropping in color, while the focus in portraiture lends intimacy.  Body language and attitude (costumes) create the humanity and presence of the subject.

Sheldon lives in his work.  As a framing artist he design and makes most of his furniture where his environment echoes his life forms.  To be found in Sheldon’s drawings are everyday objects along with architectural works from his travel through Europe.

Sheldon presents in ‘Edges’ a unique collection of drawings that exemplifies is ‘evolution’ in portrait sketching and capturing body language over a period of 30 years.