TRANSMISSION
presents the last show at its current location*:

JAMIE BOLING
and
BILL DONOVAN

Opening December 5, 7-10pm
Show runs Dec. 5 - 27
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat 12-5
or call for appointment
Closed on Christmas Day

TRANSMISSION
321 Brook Rd.
Richmond, VA 23220
804.200.9985

Attached images:
Boling American Girl: Jamie Boling, "American Girl," oil on canvas, 67 x 89 inches
Donovan thinking map: Bill Donovan, "Thinking Map," ink and acrylic on paper, 50 x 38 inches
Boling Dirt Daddies: Jamie Boling, "Dirt Daddies," oil on canvas, 67 x 89 inches
Donovan eat healthier: Bill Donovan, "Eat Healthier," acrylic on panel, 11 x 8 1/2 inches

Jamie Boling's Artist Statement:

I am a product of contemporary popular culture. I grew up on Star Wars, Jaws, Easy Rider, posters of Farrah Fawcett, and video games. It was through these early mediated visual experiences that I began to engage fiction and encounter the possibilities of representation. The work that I make captures and catalogues the profound and fugitive moments of my cultural experience while it serves as an autobiographical survey of my evolving aesthetic. My work emerges from the study and influence of art-historical models and technical traditions as it confronts contemporary fiction and modern visual forms.

At the heart of my work is the belief that physical materials give an image context through their inherent historical, metaphorical, and linguistic implications. Likewise, images carry their own meaning when filtered through the lens of culture and individual experience. My interests reside in this convergence of material and image.

Bill Donovan's Artist Statement:

My work combines current events with my interior world. I represent current events with portraits of important people, and generally the portraits are of authors, musicians, scientists, radio show hosts, and politicians. I represent my interior world through cartoons that are reminiscent of early Disney and the Krazy Kat strip by George Herriman. Lately I have been attempting the synthesize the two worlds into imagery that is somewhere between traditional realism and the hyper exaggeration of cartoons.

While deployed to Kandahar Afghanistan as a National Guardsman I started drawing cartoons. Previously I had made images exclusively from source photos, but I was not always able to find photos there. So I started to represent my interior life with expressive cartoons that over time have grown to feel very powerful to me.

---- Both artists are founding members of Paintallica ( www.paintallica.com )

*Bad economies force us to evolve - Stay tuned for announcements!