This Month's Artist: Phill Finley & Adam Cunningham
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Exhibition by Phill Finley and Adam Cunningham
Phill Finley: Art has been a natural extension of, and diversion from, my architectural career. It allows me to be creative in my own way, without limitations, to explore and develop a painting to a level of completion that I can be fully satisfied with. While color can tend to focus on the color, black and white allows (sometimes forces) more focus on the subject. I try to capture emotion, positive emotion, the good place in the mind. Paintings usually take between 100 to 200 hours of actually working with a brush in hand and sometimes also as much time contemplating how to continue. Thus I have to see something special and want to celebrate it, there has to be a sense of becoming part of the scene, or to have a sense of what it would be like to have actually “created” it. Or more specifically, do what my subconscious mind works out. In this way the painting develops a life of its own and in a way its own personality, or perhaps it is displaying an aspect of mine.
Adam Cunningham: I have lived in Sacramento most of my life. Always artistic as a child, I didn't really start developing my art until the early 90's. I was inspired by graffiti and comic books. Bright colors, complex backgrounds, and bold images always caught my eye. I like to incorporate those attributes into my work. What started as pen and ink soon turned into Spray cans, stencils, and airbrush. Exploring those ends has developed the style i have today.
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