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Joel Rudin – Way Back Home

$1,200.00

A dynamic alternate realm, but perhaps this is just the norm, like going back  home, and it’s our everyday world that’s alien and unknowable

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About the Artist

Artist Statement

I create imaginary, mystical landscapes in veiled and muted tones. I seek to evoke a sense of vastness and space, with long vistas of other worlds, alternate realms with distant formations are half seen in the mist—what could they be? Are we in another dimension or just lost in an old sci-fi flick?

I mostly work in pastel, combined at times with other media, including oil pastel, graphite, china marker, inks, watercolor…I’m always experimenting.
Perhaps it was all foreshadowed long, long ago when my sixth grade teacher assigned me to create an image of our solar system in color chalks across the classroom blackboard: ephemeral cosmic images in pigmented dust, I continue that way today.

Artist Biography

I have been drawing since I could hold a crayon.
My work titled “Points Unknown” was awarded the 2021 Mercer County Artist Exhibition Purchase Award by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, NJ.
My ethereal landscapes have been seen in exhibitions throughout New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania including:
– The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
– The Gallery at Mercer County Community College
– The New Hope Art Center
– Alfa Art Gallery
– D&R Greenway Land Trust
– Artists of Yardley
– One-man show at Small World Coffee, Princeton, NJ!

My work has also been seen at:
– Ceres Gallery in New York City
– HMVC Gallery, New York
– River Oaks Art Center/Bolton Davis Gallery, Alexandria, LA
– bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
– Cape Fear Gallery, Fayetville, NC.
Decades ago, I had a spot illustration in The Village Voice (1993). I was a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine All-Media Art Competition in the category of pen and ink in 1994 for my drawing, “The Subway.”