Pulse Project 2011:NXT Passage Out
New works by Artist Bruce Thomas
(Revelstoke,Sept 15th,2011) — Artist Bruce Thomas examines new perspectives of mountain vista’s in his new visual and narrative series: NXT Passage Out. Using bright bold colour and shapes Thomas packages together 16 large scale works he interprets as “Mtn Aura’s” with a audio Narrative to accompany these picaresques scenes of mystery and beauty.
Using his reflections and experiences,Thomas will produce a “Sound Design Narrative” to accompany his upcoming exhibit in Los Angeles at the beginning December of this year. A Canadian and European exhibit will follow in the new year.
“For centuries, the grandeur of mountain scenery has mesmerised people of creeds and cultures. Mountains amaze and delight us, inspiring the human mind to peaks of excitement and curiosity. Inspired by the various mountains ranges in British Columbia, Thomas’s canvas’s convey the mysterious nature of mountains and the infinite and contemplative perspective they can provide
Over the past year, I travelled to various mountain locals by foot,bike and ski,. Using various artistic media’s to capture the essence or “Aura” of these ancient sentinels that stand as monuments to the earths movement over time . I choose to focus on my own personal interpretations as appose to the many I examined in the last Canadian Pulse Project “ http://portableinspiration.blogspot.com/
Please contact me personally if you have any questions or wish to further inquire about the details of the work.
Thanks and All the best.
Bruce
surface2sound@gmail.com
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Pulse Project Region #36:Tete Jaune Cache 2009
It’s about the Yellowhead highway. It starts in Saskatchewan and goes northwest. It was heralded during the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900’s.The route was named for a French explorer. He had blond hair so they called it the ‘Tête Jaune Cache’. You come around this bend and into the valley and above you rises Mount Robson…Wow,it has a mystique about it. The farmer I spoke to called it Je jeune and wrote it down as jejeune. There are some interesting things to think about when you think about mountains
What are the mountains made of and how did they come about?
Pulse Project Region #24:CALGARY 2009
A night out.Gates to the West from the road east…of the open roads traveled in from the Paris of the great plains. It’s from an old train trudging towards distant horizon… It’s of yesterdays and the brand new millenium. It’s born from the depths of Black Gold… Watching from its perch…. still there until dawn,by then I’m gone.
Pulse Project Region #19: The Prairies 2009
Smack in the middle of North America is a huge area of land which was once covered with grasses and colorful wild flowers. The French called the rolling plains of grass “prairie”, from the word for a meadow grazed by cattle. The prairies are a type of grassland dominated by herbaceous plants and grasses. Very few trees grow on the prairies but when encountered it creates a staccato punctuation against the rolling,flowing,lyrical movements of the great plains.
Interview based art project 2009
Toronto Artist Bruce Thomas Deconstructs the Canadian Identity in his new work, The Canadian PULSE Project June 29, 2009 – TORONTO – What defines us as Canadian? Canadian Artist Bruce Thomas sets out on a cross-Canada tour in search of answers for his Canadian PULSE Landscape Project. A work in progress, Thomas challenges the Canadian historical landscape perspective and uncovers a new approach to traditional landscape painting through the eyes of Canada’s growing multi-cultural society. Traveling across Canada, Thomas hopes to interview hundreds of Canadians and document their perspective on what defines the quintessential Canadian Landscape. Using this research to form the foundation of this multi-media project, Thomas will begin to form the new Canadian Landscape identity. “The Canadian landscape identity most of us relate to is Tom Thomson’s famous, West Wind painting. World-wide The Group of Seven have always embodied the most identifiable Canadian landscape. Now that we’re coming up on 100 years since Thomson created his first landmark paintings, I wondered where we now stand in terms of Canada’s visual identity “says Thomas. The Canadian PULSE Project will incorporate sound, video and paintings to express and explore Thomas’s experiences traveling across Canada. Talking with a diverse representation of the population about what it means to be creative in Canada today will be starting point for the project. These collected interviews, field recordings and drawings will then be compiled and transformed into a series of large-scale mixed media compositions. “I believe this form of integrated, journalistic, intrepretive media has the potential to produce new hybrid art forms, which will encourage innovative practices and ultimately break new ground in terms of understanding our rapidly evolving national identity, “ says Thomas. As a multi-disciplined artist and graduate of Concordia University, Thomas has also worked for more than 10 years in the music, film and art industry . Today, he draws upon this experience as inspiration for his most recent collection of paintings. The Canadian PULSE Project , will ultimately condense the meaning of an entire film into one frame on a canvas. His methodology is a “series-based”, constructivist approach that uses different medium to produce tangible examples of an intangible inspiration.
