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David Nielsen will explain to you that he believes creating art is a process of evolution, something that is ongoing and ever changing. Even after a work of art is created, it continues to evolve as its interpretations change. The creation and viewing of the work is a communication first between the art and the artist, then between the art and its viewer. In this ongoing conversation, meaning continues to shift, new perspectives are formed, and the art is considered becomes a part of life. Nielsen believes that removed from this process, when the subject is reduced merely to what the eye meets on canvas, something is lost. What is lost is the emotive force within the work itself. Viewing art in this way takes time; it is not passive, the viewer must bring something to the exchange. This is the implicit challenge.
Nielsen’s most recent work illustrates his way of seeing and interpreting shifting meanings. His paintings are styled like layered, time-lapse images where figures move about the canvas. In some, the sun or moon measures a path across the sky. The passage of time is delineated in a seeming series of overlapping frames. In considering these works, the viewer slowly becomes aware of a sense of animation. Particular moments of the study come forward and then recede. The eye refocuses on the next piece of the sequence and a new moment is revealed. In this way the movement of a couple hours is condensed into a single scene. Most of these scenes are alive and evolving from Nielsen’s own memories; an afternoon at the beach or night at a campfire are slices of time depicted as whole.

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Written by Peter D. Sloma

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