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Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Charlie Newton. Charlie will be a participating artist in Forever Painting and a solo exhibition both in our 2022 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Charlie will be continuing their conversation about his work.
About Charlie:
Charlie Newton began drawing at the age of five years old. "I saw the light of God coming through the window when I saw a drawn picture for the fist time in my life. From then on I was hooked" he exclaims. Having received his BA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and his MFA from Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University Newton also studied with the University of Georgia's Studies Abroad Program in Cortona Italy. Since 1986 Newton has exhibited in London, Italy, New York, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Richmond Virginia, and numerous galleries in the South East including The Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum and Boundless Expressions, H. Lee Moffit Center, Tampa, Florida. His work is represented in private and public collections in the US and abroad including The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, The College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, Sun Trust Bank, Chattanooga, TN, Wallace H. Kuralt Center, Charlotte, NC and The Chattanooga African American Museum, Chattanooga, TN. In 2012 Mr. Newton and his wife painter Iantha Newton founded SPLASH a free art school for urban youth. Mr. Newton maintains his art studio where he paints full time in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
http://newtonstudio.yolasite.com/
About Forever Painting:
If all the paintings that have ever been made were compressed on to one canvas; every mark and brushstroke continuous, what would be its content, its sum total? What would this new, amalgamation say or describe or depict? This canvas would capture the past, the present, the future, as new marks are made they are added to the heap, an archive of perpetual presents. So Forever-Painting doesn’t care about asserting painting’s relevance, which signifies its importance, its gravity in that historical moment. Instead, these works attempt, move toward, and seek, totality, a genesis, that in its becoming defines both wholes and parts as not that what they seem, and definitely not what they are.