NEW -- "DISPLACED CLOWN AND MIRROR" - OIL PASTEL PAINTING

New – “Displaced Clown and Mirror,” oil pastel painting on 11” x 14” mixed media paper, Evocativist style – Sennelier and Mungyo Artist Premium oil pastels with mineral spirits wash © 2015 Wes Rehberg

NEW - "TWO CHATTANOOGA HOMELESS MEN (DECEASED)," OIL PASTEL PAINTING

"Two Chattanooga Homeless Men (Deceased)," oil pastel painting on 12" x 18" smooth Bristol paper, Evocativist style, evaluating (c) Wes, adapted from my video clips.

INVENTING "EVOCATIVISM" ...

Inventing "Evocativism " - a figurative and abstract esthetic category
Postmodern, spiritually intuitive, ethical, just and musically rhythmic way of seeing and creating. Visually artistic. Imperfect.
Working on this as an artistic category, style for me. Fleshing it out for and within painting and drawing and what I've worked on in the past. Philosophically, too.
Indicative. Evocative. Free to ramble and wander. Conscientious.

Wes Rehberg, Ph.D., Visual Artist

CREATING AS SACRAMENTAL? ... (plus work in progress)

Can creating art (or anything) be thought of as a sacramental task, sacrament through sacrament to sacrament? From the love actor through a work of loving to what appears to be an object that's really an incarnation of love, a subject. Holy, then. Mindful. Unafraid to address both the beauty and pain in life. Serving up a paschal meal, a passion play. Concrete. Embracing. Unitive despite difficulty. Into the mystic and material at the same moment. Michelangelo's "Pieta" and Van Gogh's "Starry Night." The mundane and transcendent joined. Inviting compassion. Present.

Including work in progress:
"Somali Refugees" - oil pastel painting on 12" x 19" vellum Bristol paper. (c)WR - continuing refugee and displacement theme