Dale Dreiling "99 Bottles of Beer" (Dale works at Obey)
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Dale Dreiling "99 Bottles of Beer" (Dale works at Obey)
Dale Dreiling
99 Bottles of Beer
Project Room
October 17th – November 14th
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 17th
6-10pm
Artist in attendance
Free & Open to the public
50 paintings of beer on canvas and 18 beer sculptures - The artwork is affordable so you can still buy beer!
http://www.blackbookgallery.com/artists/dale-dreiling/
Dale is the art director for Studio Number One - Visit the website for more info...
Your show features 50 paintings of beer, what led you to create this series?
The first piece was just one of those spontaneous things. Prior to that, I had been painting a lot of figures and cityscapes for the better part of five years. I was real serious with them and was starting to feeling bored with it all. That first piece started out as the third canvas in a new portrait series, which I was already growing unhappy with. I felt stuck. It felt like work and I hated it. So, I painted over that piece and took a break.
My spark came from an empty Dogfish Head’s Miles Davis’ Bitches’ Brew that I’d saved. I just got inspired. I love that era of Miles, and I love Mati Klarwein’s painting style. It feels so free, just like the music. That’s how I wanted to feel again. So, I just started painting that bottle as if it was a portrait. This whole series is portraiture of bottles as people. They’re imperfect but they’re real. They’re a collective of individuals, all similar but each different.
Oskar Blues - Dale’s Pale Ale
Cast Hydrocal
2.5 x 5.75 Inches
http://www.blackbookgallery.com/artists/dale-dreiling/
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