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Rosetta Stone of Communication Essence (2014) Painting by Charles Riley

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Drawings were done in oil pastel on card stock. The card stock was coated and imbedded on canvas with acrylic gel. Acrylic color was applied to areas of the canvas surrounding the card stock.The artwork was a long process that had impetus when I took communication courses at Columbia University. During the same period, I met a refugee from Communist[...]
Drawings were done in oil pastel on card stock. The card stock was coated and imbedded on canvas with acrylic gel. Acrylic color was applied to areas of the canvas surrounding the card stock.The artwork was a long process that had impetus when I took communication courses at Columbia University. During the same period, I met a refugee from Communist China, Master Da Liu, who taught me Tai Chi and meditation, which I still practice and teach. More recently, I read the four volumes of Taoist Classics collected and translated by Thomas Cleary. The artwork is a distillation and a response to these experiences. The artwork is a map to a flexible, open ended language. Extensible to accommodate the development of human awareness by means of a meditation on communication and consciousness. Taoist philosophy uses symbols like the golden elixir for the development of states of consciousness. In correspondence with this use of symbols, I wrote a story. To complement the story, I developed pictographs in the tradition of the development of written language. The pictographs were done first in black and white oil pastel on card stock and then color. The card stock was coated and imbedded on canvas with acrylic gel. Acrylic color was applied to areas of the canvas surrounding the card stock. The colors were amorphous and flowing to enhance the connection that flows between written words, pictographs, and the unconscious reality or sea of unknowing which connects all things. The story reads as indicated on cards: Two fly east through clouds and disruptive currents. Two sail with intent. Shipwreck, many souls are lost. Eaten by demons, they take the golden ship to heaven. Intent is transformed into the golden elixir of real knowledge & conscious knowledge in harmony. Creative Spirit is discerned in a survivor. The heart center is opened to reveal the connectedness of all things. Sea demons are tamed and expelled from consciousness. Reality of creative energy is revealed in the return to the primordial source. Birds fly over the Western Mountains in exultation of the triumph of sensitivity and resilient intent.

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Charles Riley
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At an early age I learned about art from an aunt who was an established artist. My father taught me a love of literature. My B.A. was in English Lit. My graduate degrees from Columbia University were in studio[...]

At an early age I learned about art from an aunt who was an established artist. My father taught me a love of literature. My B.A. was in English Lit. My graduate degrees from Columbia University were in studio art and teaching of college studio art. I had exhibitions in New York City during and after my grad work at Columbia. These included: The Macy Gallery at Columbia; Hudson Valley '85 National Exhibition Juried by Barbara Haskell, Curator of the Whitney Museum; Ariel Gallery in NYC; The Emerging Collector in NYC; Eighth Annual Exhibition of Emerging Artists at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; and In Search of the American Experience by The Museum of the National Arts Foundation. There were also reviews in The New York Times, ArtSpeak (a Gallery Review), and the Bronx News.

More recently, I show my work online at charlesrileyart, exhibit in shows at the Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts in Fredericksburg, VA. From 2012 through 2013 I displayed my artwork at Art First in Fredericksburg VA. Fredericksburg and Art First are very magical places if you ever get a chance to visit.

My artwork includes painting, mixed media, photography, and computer art, as well as a synthesis of the media. The work is expressionistic and it reflects what it is to be human. My writing, which I combine with the artwork, also reflects the human condition. The artwork is also a means to balance mundane conditioning that distracts us from the unconditioned creativity of the universe. My artwork is fed by relationships and other pursuits and studies such as Tai Chi, Taoism, Literature, Music, Media, and Art.

I studied Tai Chi with Master Da Liu in the 80's at Columbia University and I've been practicing and teaching since. I'm now teaching at two community centers in the Fredericksburg, VA area.

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