Special Exhibits:
Algerita Arts Center

ARTIST STATEMENT:
      Often I am questioned on the use of colors for my human figures; which is predominately a blend of greens, blue-greens, and some earth tones.  the principle reason concerns our cosmic evolutionary origins.  All forms of higher life, especially us sentient humans, are directly and indirectly dependent upon the existence of plants; a simple, yet complex fact.
    And within that relationship a curious symbiotic function exists.  The biomolecular structure of chlorophyll is virtually identical to the blood corpuscles streaming through our system; except, where a cell of chlorophyll has atoms of carbon, a blood cell has atoms of iron.  Which brings us to the next reason of why I almost always use certain earth tones; they are related to blood at its various stages of exposure to air, to drying, to cellular death, and to its ultimate return to mother earth.  Thus, the colors chosen fulfill themselves as metaphors for the important processes of procreation and regeneration.  The eternal yin and yang of earthly cosmic cycles, man-woman, hot-cold, day-night, black and white.  Of course, the different plastic images play upon a multitude of the dynamic aspects between these forces.
    Continually, I work to probe the synthesis of the natural world, the physics, especially of quantum reality with spiritual feelings.  the symbolic realm of the great collective unconscious of human kind; to seek out the what's universal within the idiom of my individual, creative expression. 
    I will mention a few details about what and whom has influenced me artistically over the span of my live thus far.  Fires, and foremost, would be my mother who diligently read stories to me often, as a preschooler.  It was she who practiced drawing and painting of landscapes and animals during my youth.  And it was she, who had the foresight to make available books related to all aspects of the creative arts.  One book in particular has paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaugain:  from it I have carried a life long connection to them.
      Later the works of Joan Miro, Paul Klee, and Vassiley Kandinsky from Europe and that of Jasper Johns, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock from the US, in the visual arts, stand out primarily, among a host of other important artists for whose works I also have strong feelings; for the what, why, and of how they pursued their work.
    Also I strive to understand, to take into account, the works of those before me who have withstood the test of time; in the arts, literature, and the sciences.  Earnest "Papa" hemingway, for instance, felt it to be the most critical, driving criterion by which to establish one's artistic effort.  This effort means to use previous standards of achievenment as a measuring stick against what one attempts to say creatively into the present world of those with sufficiently sensitive, critical faculties; who are experienced in the comparative analysis of the past, the present milieu, and possible futures.  Saying something worhtwhile in an original way has far greater value than monetary rewards per se. 
        One does not "do art" to make a living; one creates art because it is a consuming passion!!  Without the sentient awareness of language, the arts, and all forms of human communications, we are reduced to being merely animals competing with one another for our daily material needs, and territorial rights.  And if the last statement is the bottom line, then we are truly doomed to destroy this planet, and ourselves with it.

Artist: Averett Lidzy
Synthesis of the
Natural World

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