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Point of Departure: Cbabi, Jarvis, Lobdell
June 17 - July 24, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 17 l 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Gallery Talk: Thursday, June 30 | 5:30pm Reception, 6:00pm Talk
Curator: Davide Weaver
Artists: Cbabi Bayoc, Phil Jarvis, William Lobdell
What do the following things have in common: a dollar bill, sketchbooks, a PVC and aluminum sheet, and three 24" x 48" canvases? They're all part of a series of four workshops, conceived by artists Cbabi Bayoc, Phil Jarvis and William Lobdell, which resulted in the creation of the 11 works in this exhibition.
In one workshop, Bayoc, Jarvis and Lobdell used an image of a dollar bill as a jumping-off point to create individual paintings inspired by the image. In another, the artists traded sketches and created paintings based on those sketches. In the third, the artists divided a photo into three sections and each artist reproduced his section of the photo in paint on a 24" x 48" canvas. They then placed the canvases together to form one painting. In the fourth workshop, after creating a collaborative sketch, the artists enlarged and reproduced it onto a PVC and aluminum sheet, and painted the final image onto this sheet.
Collaboration is an important challenge for these artists whose primary work is done independently and who have such different styles. Equipped with his BA from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, Cbabi Bayoc began his career as a caricature artist at a Six Flags amusement park. After he mastered the style, his illustrations appeared in Rap Pages magazine and he was invited to create caricatures for album covers and music videos. His client list includes Coca Cola, Anheuser-Busch, SIDS Resource, singers and producers Prince and Erykah Badu, New Line Cinema, and St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Like Bayoc, Phil Jarvis worked as a summer portraitist at Six Flags during high school. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with his BFA in painting and went on to create hundreds of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Jarvis' varied career includes 23 years as a professional sign-maker, exhibitions at Mad Art Gallery and Art Coop, Best of Show awards at the St. Louis Artists' Guild and the Women's Caucus for the Arts among others, and commissions for full-room murals in several homes throughout the St. Louis area.
William Lobdell holds degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute and Webster University. The scale of his works ranges from intimate to massive and though he is interested in many artistic media, drawing, painting, and sculpture are the most satisfying to him as an artist. Lobdell has shown his award-winning work in nationally juried exhibitions and companies such as H & R Block in Kansas City, An American Place restaurant in St. Louis, and the Southern Methodist Heart Research Center in Paducah, Kentucky have collected and displayed his work. Lobdell is active in his local art scene as a member of nonprofit artist groups where he frequently speaks and leads classes. He also mentors artists in his community.
Though collaboration is difficult for these artists in terms of yielding to others' visions, it also provides many opportunities for growth.
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