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G L E N N N E S S

L A S T C A L LMay 20 – July 10

Cover:Call in December, 201512" x 16" oil on panel (framed) $3,500

Glenn Ness

Painting is a way for me to tell stories, celebrating our need to connect to each other and to our surroundings. It is notenough for me to just paint a man walking up the stairs. I am intimately involved in that moment as soon as I choose topaint it. I wonder about His story and how it relates to mine. Often I choose not to paint a figure in a scene at all, whichoverstates an obvious absence. To me, this implies a narrative that lends itself to being internalized in some way.

I like to paint both around urban and rural scenarios. My current work is a cross section of both. Cityscapes give me anopportunity to visually explore very complex multiple perspectives and light sources from scenes we may walk throughevery day. The rural pool scene with its undulating lines and shocks of light and color have a hypnotic effect on me thatpulls me inward. Both have a subject matter that celebrates the everydayness of being in the moment and not missing it.

My work is a visual commentary on my perceptions of a psychological and spiritual need to connect; to our surroundingsand to each other.

I explore city scenes, interiors of restaurants and places we may frequent, or even rural back yard pools; to set a stage fora narrative that explores this quandary. Our lives are full of places and people that come, or who have gone, or those wemay long to know. My paintings give the viewer the permission to superimpose and examine their own feelings pertainingto the narrative given in each image; i.e. the ubiquitous empty chair implies a presence, or absence that may trigger mem-ory or hope, the story everyone has but many hold secret. Or the empty quiet room that imbues isolation without loneli-ness, allowing us the freedom to follow thought. City streets where we are surrounded by humanity and the crush of adver-tisements and faces yet be totally alone.

I love realism for its ability to express the abstract. I love the process of oil painting for its ability to translate my own needto confess, to connect, to tell a story we may all read ourselves into.

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Glenn Ness

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Last Flight Out, 201524" x 36" oil on canvas (framed) $7,500

Call from the Road, 201524" x 36" oil on canvas (framed) $7,500

Black Icon, 2015 8" x 10" oil on panel (framed) $1,500

Chem. Trails, 201516" x 12"

oil on panel (framed) $3,500

Lisa Waiting, 201524" x 36"

oil on canvas (framed) $7,500

#55, 2015 7" x 10" oil on panel (framed) $1,300

5 o’clock Somewhere!, 2015 8" x 12" oil on panel framed) $1,800

Chrysler Entrance, 201524" x 36" oil on canvas (framed) $7,500

Green Gold Icon, 2015 6" x 9" oil on panel (framed) $1,100

Pasadena Antiques, 2015 16" x 12" oil on canvas (framed) $3,500

South Pasadena, A.M., 201524" x 36" oil on canvas (framed) $7,500

Entering the Millennium, 201548" x 60" oil on canvas (framed) $16,000

Pay Phone, 2015 16" x 12" oil on panel (framed) $3,500

The Long Wait, 2015 12" x 16" oil on panel (framed) $3,500