Martin Waldera
"Skylines l" 6x8.5
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"Skylines X" 6x8.5
"Skylines lV 6x8.5
"Great Plains V" 12x19
"Great Plains Vl" 12x19
Martin Waldera Bio
Born and raised in Minnesota I have a tolerance for diversity. We can be enjoying 80 degree weather one day and be sharpening our snow shovels the next. These type of changes affect your decisions, your moods, your needs and have influenced my art. I find my art varies throughout the seasons and the years form abstract to a naive impressionism. "I am absolutely enthralled by abstract art, I return to it constantly. Within abstraction lies reality."
I am a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Studio Arts. In studying art history, I was attracted to the Surrealists, especially Dali and Tanguy, as well as Duchamp. At the U of M, George Morrison made a lasting impression upon me with his abstractions of earth and sky and their relation to the horizon, Recently, I've enjoyed the abstract woodblock prints of Hodaka Yoshida and their "primitive energy". Together the study of these artists and others have shaped my interpretation of art and guided my hand to create work that defines me.
These recent paintings are the culmination of years of small successes and many failures, a continuous process. As diverse as the Minnesota climate are the influences evident within these acrylic paintings. i begin working serendipitously on multiple pieces and rely on "happy accidents", then I paint more intuitively in reaction to my initial marks. When finished I hope to discover elements of ancient maps, paths of the explorers, primitive cave drawings, aboriginal symbols, mythology figures, astrological signs, abstract land forms, great geologic events, oriental ideograms, native pictographs, rock and roll music and the blues. Boulevard Fine Art South gallery in Nokomis, FL feature Martin Waldera's artwork.
I am a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Studio Arts. In studying art history, I was attracted to the Surrealists, especially Dali and Tanguy, as well as Duchamp. At the U of M, George Morrison made a lasting impression upon me with his abstractions of earth and sky and their relation to the horizon, Recently, I've enjoyed the abstract woodblock prints of Hodaka Yoshida and their "primitive energy". Together the study of these artists and others have shaped my interpretation of art and guided my hand to create work that defines me.
These recent paintings are the culmination of years of small successes and many failures, a continuous process. As diverse as the Minnesota climate are the influences evident within these acrylic paintings. i begin working serendipitously on multiple pieces and rely on "happy accidents", then I paint more intuitively in reaction to my initial marks. When finished I hope to discover elements of ancient maps, paths of the explorers, primitive cave drawings, aboriginal symbols, mythology figures, astrological signs, abstract land forms, great geologic events, oriental ideograms, native pictographs, rock and roll music and the blues. Boulevard Fine Art South gallery in Nokomis, FL feature Martin Waldera's artwork.