Hierarchy ---GC Myers
The name I’ve chosen for my exhibition that opens June 11 at the Principle Gallery is Facets. When looking at this year’s show, I realized that there was a very wide variety of my work in this group. Not focusing on one specific aspect as in previous years. There are a few Red Roof paintings, a few fragmented sky paintings , a few with converging field rows, a few with Red Chairs and a couple of my small, lone figures. It’s overall a pretty interesting group that I think shows a fuller spectrum from the prism of my work. Thus, the name, Facets.
There are also a handful of my Archaeology pieces in this show. I only do a handful of these per year now. The piece above, Hierarchy, is derived from that series although it focuses more on the layers below the surface rather than artifacts, although there is one yellow shoe there. This painting is a 30″ by 40″ canvas so it has some size which gives it some visual wallop.
I’ve been working on this piece for about six months, doing a bit then setting it aside. I would keep glimpsing at it when I wasn’t working on it, trying to figure where I would go with it. But I never wanted to rush it, never wanted to push it too hard. Wanted it to grow naturally, organically. It wasn’t until yesterday, when I dragged the last few strokes on the canvas, that I felt I finally saw where the painting had settled and it felt whole.
That’s always an interesting feeling, this sense of the work being suddenly complete. Full. Alive. As though the last few embellishments stir something that make it more than mere paint smeared on canvas, make it an entity with a history and a future all its own. It’s exhilarating but sad at the same time, as though the life it’s taken on will soon be gone from my life. I can’t fully explain it but that’s the feeling I felt yesterday with Hierarchy.
So, I share my studio for the next few weeks with this breathing, living creature as it impatiently waits to shows its true self to the outside world…
Redtree Times 
I’m looking forward to seeing the variety at your June show, especially your return to the less saturated palette of colors.
Will you have anything new from the Exile series or triptychs?
Hi, Gary. I won’t have either at this show but have been planning on starting work on some Exiles-like pieces, as well as a series of triptychs, this coming fall. The Exiles pieces always take a different mindset on my part, needing time blocked aside, and even then don’t emerge the way I desire. The triptychs are one of those things that I always mean to revisit but somehow don’t get around to. But both are tentatively on the schedule I maintain in my mind.