Thursday, April 5, 2012 @ 7 PM - Cre8ery
A solo art exhibition by Cameron Cross. This show is open to the public and admission is free! Please bring your friends, family - anyone you wish. Posting this on your FB page is also encouraged. I hope to see you there...
Quite simply, I have been intrigued with black and white images - and the symbolism associated with them - my whole life.
I have long been fascinated with early 20th century images. Suddenly, the camera was invented, and still and moving images were brought to the public in black and white. I find the optics of this period of history very fascinating. What happens to our sensibilities when we view images from this black and white era? Most images from this age appear devoid of warmth and emotion, the stuff only colour can bring.
With the emergence of black and white film, the most famous images - political and Hollywood figures - became enormously powerful and even larger than life. For the first time in history, millions of people all over the globe could see actual pictures of their heroes and villains. There must have been something very overwhelming about this new medium.
Symbolically, black and white is the extreme version of who we are: good and evil, right and wrong, left and right, truth and lie, ...it’s all there for us to decode.
It is with black and white that I create and explore these ideas / paintings.