Join us at the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Ruth Andres Gallery on Saturday, 4/20, from 1pm - 3pm for the closing reception of “Veneration: Travels of the Mind”, an exhibition of all new paintings and sculptures by Goldmark artist Hugh DeWitte.

Hugh will be present at the reception to respond to questions and comments about his artwork, so it will be an ideal opportunity to enjoy the exhibition and meet the artist.

About the Exhibition

This exhibit focuses on abstract explorations of today’s changing civilization. The work expresses the spirit and nature of our urban landscape, the industrial age, the circle of life our society’s search for meaning and our loss of humility, reverence, courtesy and duty.

Antique handwriting, construction plans, foundry molds, religious metals and colorful compositions provide a layered picture of modern life and what we put faith in. WWI and WWII military bars tell a tale conflict, honor and duty.

Tabletop sculptures reflect totems, emblematic depictions of our industrial age, “markers” of belief in machines, labor and tools as symbols of purpose and progress versus the power of animals and nature seen in other indigenous cultures.

As Ecclesiastes 1: 3-5 and 11 says:

3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?

4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.

11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.

About the Artist

Hugh’s work uses line, color, and shape to express the spirit and nature of our urban environment. The collection explores abstract interpretations of “circular sightings” and life’s unquestioned spinning.

Investigations started when observing the composition and complexities of our highway interchanges. All civilizations across recorded human history have had great engineering feats. Feats that defined their age. Not unlike the pyramids of Egypt, I believe highways are the symbol of our era.

The consideration of these spaces has now evolved beyond the circular motion of cars, trucks, and transportation, into a study of how perpetual motion reflects our human condition and the hum of humanity.

https://www.hughdewitte.com/

https://www.goldmarkculturalcenter.org/artists#/hugh-dewitte

https://www.saatchiart.com/hughdewitte