tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568519976646084692024-03-13T04:41:29.796-07:00Wet Paint Syndrome, LLCSPARTANBURG, SC a community based art project founded by Kristofer Neely, featuring studio and gallery spaces. Kris is known for his Guardian paintings. Folk Art, Self-Taught Art, Entrepreneur, Paintings, Local Artist.Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-52387756148247343262020-05-27T20:20:00.001-07:002020-05-27T20:21:37.285-07:00Guardians are now available online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I want to invite you to look at our current inventory available online at <a href="https://shop.vintagewarehousespartanburg.com/store/category/Kris%20Neely?sort=HL&Multiple+One+of+a+Kinds=" target="_blank">Vintage Warehouse of Spartanburg</a>. We are trying to use this site more often to facilitate sales during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Your support benefits the local community when you purchase art through this link.<br />
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<br />Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-25216050663653785112016-12-09T11:00:00.001-08:002016-12-09T11:10:27.397-08:00Safety Pin Guardian Interview: Studio 62<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://up.anv.bz/latest/anvload.html?key=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" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-68276792355724666622016-12-06T19:12:00.002-08:002016-12-08T07:34:35.773-08:00Angels, Safety Pins, and Southern Hospitality<br />
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Tryon, N.C. – Kris Neely is known for his angel paintings. He calls them Guardians. This year he is trying something new.</div>
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When his older brother Erik died in the year 2000, Neely found way to use his art to give hope to others.</div>
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It all started with a simple request from his mother. “She wanted something to go in his childhood bedroom to remind her to be hopeful. You can imagine that was the saddest place in the house for a grieving mom.”</div>
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Neely painted the first of his Guardians for the narrow space between the door frame and the light switch in that room. </div>
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Soon his mother asked for more of these angels, painted on wooden scraps Neely had around his art studio in Spartanburg, SC. “I thought ten would be all I would ever paint.” Neely missed his estimate- multiply ten by one thousand. Neely has shared more than 10,000 of these simple paintings. Each one is unique. Neely hopes they will bring hope to places where it needs to be remembered. </div>
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Neely operates Wet Paint Syndrome, LLC on nights and weekends, sharing his Guardians worldwide, and by day he serves as the Professor of Art at Spartanburg Methodist College. “I try to mix it up a little every year so I do not get tired. One year the wings unfolded. One year I built more sculptural assemblages. This year it is safety pins.”</div>
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Neely has found a way to incorporate his Guardian image into the negative space left by the shape of a safety pin. “I do not consider this to be a political symbol,” Neely adds. “No political party owns love. No party owns human kindness.”</div>
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The symbol of the safety pin has become a rallying point for people who intend to serve as “a safe space” for others “who may feel vulnerable from the hurtful and sometimes hateful rhetoric that has emerged in our recent civic discourse.” </div>
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When asked about his politics, Neely asserts, “All of my angels have a right and a left wing. It is all about balance.” He says he has little use for partisan politics. “I believe in Southern hospitality, and that means showing kindness to strangers.”</div>
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Neely hopes his new Safety Pin Guardians will help him support people in the Carolinas who may be in need of assistance. He plans to support projects and charities that help communities that he wants to feel more welcomed in our region. “The Carolinas have been a thriving place for international business. The last thing we need to do is make people feel like we have forgotten to show basic human kindness to others just because they look a little different or think a little different.” Neely points out that the mountains and seashores in the Carolinas serve as a boon for regional economic growth and local businesses. He argues that any policy that excludes people on the basis of race, creed, or sexual orientation is not making visitors feel welcome. “If I believe God so loved the world, I figure I should try to do it too.”</div>
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Neely quotes Abraham Lincoln from memory. “All that I am and all that I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” He concludes, “If Momma saw someone in need, she would try to help them.”</div>
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Neely’s new Safety Pin Guardians debut at Carri Bass Gallery at 25A South Trade Street in Tryon, NC on Friday, December 9 from 6-8pm. The reception is free and open to the public. Neely says that he will have paintings at the exhibit on sale. His Safety Pin Guardians are also available on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WetPaintSyndrome?ref=l2-shopheader-name">Etsy.com</a> at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WetPaintSyndrome?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Wet Paint Syndrome</a>. Neely plans to donate a portion of every Safety Pin Guardian sale to benefit non-profits that extend the reach of human kindness in the community. He wants to start local in the Carolinas.<br />
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“I believe the whole point of the safety pin is being there to help your neighbors make a way in the world. For me that starts right here at home.” Neely laughs, "In times like these, I figure I better get going on my second legion of angels. 20,000 here we come!"<br />
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His laugh is loud and distinctive, and it seems to be almost impossible not to laugh with him. </div>
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“How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” Neely asks. “More than I can paint, but only one at a time!”</div>
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The exhibit will run through January 6th. His Safety Pin Guardians are also available on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WetPaintSyndrome?ref=l2-shopheader-name">Etsy.com</a> at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WetPaintSyndrome?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Wet Paint Syndrome</a>. </div>
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<br />Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-4256803672366572032016-04-23T07:10:00.003-07:002016-04-23T07:10:40.369-07:00Teaching Change<br />
Soon it will be officially announced that I am going to be the new Professor of Art at Spartanburg Methodist College. I am very excited about this new professional opportunity.<br />
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I want to invite you to join us at a reception on Thursday, April 28 from 4-6pm in the Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery at Wofford College. I have learned that this event is not only the opening reception for a show of my students work during my Art and Earth course collaboration with Dr. Kaye Savage. It will also be an opportunity for members of the community to celebrate my work at Wofford. I hope you will join us if you can. It is free and open to the public. <br />
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Within this context, I want to share a component of this story that I have never shared.<br />
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I was hired to return to Wofford in 2004. I was the director of residence life. At that time the program needed significant creative problem solving to fix some major housing shortages and other programmatic concerns. Dean Roberta Bigger invited me to join the Student Affairs team to help solve those problems.<br />
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Wofford soon realized that my biggest gift was not managing a system. My strength is fixing programmatic issues through collaborative and creative problem solving. I was asked to assist the administration in tackling many significant issues throughout the campus. Some of that work has been visible and some of it has been mostly behind the scenes. Business cards and titles have changed frequently. Always to serve the purpose of furthering the mission of the college. <br />
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In 2005, I was asked to examine Wofford’s retention statistics. We were particularly looking at bettering our first year retention rate.<br />
There were three top indicators of risk for transfer after a review of the data. The first was if parents divorced or separated in the first year that a student was in college. The second was if a student was not engaged in an extracurricular activity by the end of the first eight weeks of college. National data showed that we were pretty normal on these two measures. Stable family dynamics and student engagement are keys to student success everywhere. The third issue was Wofford specific. In 2005, if an entering first year student had taken two or more studio art classes in high school, they were a high risk of transferring from Wofford to another college.<br />
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The studio art problem was something we could fix and improve the college and our retention rate. I began to see it as my mission to press for improvements to the studio art program at Wofford. At that time, we offered one class a semester and it was usually populated with all seniors. If we could solve that problem, we could help the entire college improve. We needed more opportunities for students to engage in studio art. <br />
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This information reaffirmed the importance of my hope to establish a Studio Art program at Wofford. This has been a goal of mine since I was a first year student at Wofford in 1997.<br />
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My own history with Wofford was complicated from the outset. I actually did not want to attend Wofford as a high school student. I had been interested in the visual arts since elementary school. My father took a job moving as an associate pastor at First Baptist Church to become the senior pastor at Morningside Baptist. A smaller church with a different mission, he worried he would not be able to afford to help me much with college. He had much more creative freedom in his new role. It was definitely a good move for him. It did impact our family. As a high school senior, I reluctantly applied to Wofford.<br />
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My choices came down to Wofford and Furman. Much of my wardrobe as a child was purple but Wofford offered me a much more generous scholarship. I faced a choice between a great college with no art program that we could afford and a great college with a great art program that we would struggle to afford. My uncle Bob pulled me aside one day at my Grandmother's house. He said, "Kris, God is everywhere. Go where the money is." It is a philosophy that works well in some situations. I would hesitate to apply it universally.<br />
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Wofford offered little opportunity for study in the visual arts. We had one course called Intro to Studio Art. It usually filled with 5th year seniors. In fact, I was a returning Presidential Scholar in my 5th year at Wofford before I was able to convince AK McMillan to grant me an override into that course. I still thank her every semester for giving me a chance.<br />
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The work of building this program started from the outside, but I soon realized that I had to work from the inside the faculty to fix this problem. I earned an MFA degree and began to push for the opportunity to grow studio art from the inside out. It has not been easy work, but it has been incredibly rewarding in many ways.<br />
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This Spring Wofford completed our first national search for an assistant professor of art. Mr. Richardson has given us a building that will house three art studios. We graduated our first 5 Studio Art minors at Wofford last spring. We will graduate several more this spring.<br />
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This is not the end of my work with studio at Wofford, but I am no longer needed on the inside. In fact by stepping out of my current role, I believe the college can do more to grow the program, President Samhat and I are already working to find ways for me to continue my good work at Wofford as a consultant on other problems. <br />
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It is with great joy that I will announce that I have been invited to join the faculty at Spartanburg Methodist College as Professor of Art. SMC has a long history of helping students find their way in college. It was founded to help students from Spartanburg who were struggling to afford college. SMC is still true to that original mission. I enjoyed a version of this kind of work in my time in the Success Initiative at Wofford. Many of the things I did in that program to help Wofford students will be helpful to students at SMC.<br />
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This is an opportunity to help build another Studio Art program. I believe that my art and my vocation can thrive at SMC in new and exciting ways. I also believe I can help SMC as a whole college with my knack for creative and collaborative problem solving.<br />
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Wofford is on very good footing now with the Studio Art program. I would ask that you continue to support it long after I move my stacks of scrap wood and used books across town. I hope one day I will be invited to show my work in the Rosalind S. Richardson Center for the Arts. There already is talk about teaching collaborations and community projects. <br />
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Part of our shared Methodist heritage is that effective leaders move regularly and do good work in new places. This move was completely my choice. It was time for Wofford to grow the Studio Art program without relying on my force of will, a ten-year old retention study, or my personal goal. Great colleges need great art programs. We have built this together and we will continue to benefit from what we have built. If I can ever help you, just look a little further West to where the Pioneers gather.<br />
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My prayer is that this move will be good for SMC, good for Wofford, and great for Spartanburg.<br />
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I will be at Wofford through the end of the Spring term and I will continue some special assignments beyond that time. I will teach summer school and a learning community for Wofford in the fall.<br />
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There is much joy and grace in this change. There is also sadness and grief. Know that this message is intended to show deep love and continuing respect. I wanted you to know so you could join us Thursday afternoon for the reception if your schedule allows.<br />
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Thanks for your thoughts, prayers, and encouragement in this time of transition. Perhaps most importantly, thank you for your patience as I have been preparing for this change. More angels soon, I promise. This has been a very busy spring.<br />
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This is a chance for new and unexpected blessings for all involved. That is my hope and prayer.<br />
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Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-63957398493951374192015-12-24T18:00:00.000-08:002015-12-24T18:11:04.063-08:00A Guardian for South Carolina<iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen src="http://up.anv.bz/latest/anvload.html?key=eyJtIjoiTElOIiwicCI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJ2IjoiNzU4OTY4IiwicGx1Z2lucyI6eyJhbmFseXRpY3MiOnsicGRiIjoiOTk0NzQ0MDEifSwib21uaXR1cmUiOnsicHJvZmlsZSI6IkxJTiIsImFjY291bnQiOiJsaW50dnd5Y3csZHBzZ2xvYmFsIiwidHJhY2tpbmdTZXJ2ZXIiOiJsaW50di4xMjIuMm83Lm5ldCJ9fX0" width ="640" height="360"></iframe>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-64461624439441641642015-12-21T20:20:00.001-08:002015-12-22T13:14:35.137-08:00A Guardian for a Tool Shed<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J3eSUoJ6U28/Vnm9OVSDnSI/AAAAAAAADSA/oBfvNzEffKs/s640/blogger-image--957173956.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J3eSUoJ6U28/Vnm9OVSDnSI/AAAAAAAADSA/oBfvNzEffKs/s640/blogger-image--957173956.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Tonight I have been thinking about fathers as I work at Wet Paint. A friend of mine told me that he was struggling to decide what to give his son for Christmas. He is behind on child support payments, probably way behind. He wants the child to be excited at Christmas, but he worries that if he tries to give his son the expensive item that he wants most, he will demonstrate an ability to pay that is far beyond his means. My friend is homeless and in recovery from years of drug abuse. He works at a restaurant my family often enjoys on the Eastside of Spartanburg. He lives in a tool shed behind a former lover's home. I know there are probably many ways to understand his story. None of them leave him looking like a sympathetic character. Tonight, I am prayerfully considering the tension he must feel inside. I pray that the stress in this situation will lead him to better places than it has so often in his recent past. </div><div><br></div><div>I gave him a small Guardian on a piece of old chair molding when he told me his story. Beside it I had written, "While I breathe, I hope." I told him the painting was to help decorate the tool shed for Christmas. We laughed together. I told him I thought that the most important gift he could ever give his son was to stay clean and sober. We cried together. He is trying to win a very difficult battle. It will never be easy.</div><div><br></div><div>I have noticed from my recliner in the living room that it is often the father figure who needs a lot of work. It is the paternal character who most needs to recapture the Christmas spirit in almost every TV holiday special. At the commercials, I am reminded of those fathers who work extra hours to pay for added expenses that are associated with that commercial Christmas spirit. </div><div><br></div><div>Tonight I am also remembering another dad with a new born child in the NICU, surely wishing he could fix what is hurting her tiny body. Ironically to protect his child, this father must keep a distance. How helpless that must feel to watch from afar, behind the glass-- trying to keep her safe. </div><div><br></div><div>Tonight I am also thinking about fathers who go to great lengths to guard their families, even when it often seems like so much is beyond their control. Parents of adult children in crisis must surely feel this tension. How do we love correctly when words do not seem to help anything? </div><div><br></div><div>And then I remember the story of Joseph-- trying to pay his taxes, trying to find shelter, trying to provide a crib and clothes for a new born. What did his mother-in-law think?</div><div><br></div><div>Tonight as I paint, I pray for fathers. May Guardian angels protect those who work or watch or weep this night. Give the angels charge over those who sleep.</div><div><br></div><div>In my family, the dads tend to be okay with just about any gift at Christmas. Sometimes things are given that are not all that exciting. Socks, deodorant, and another tape measure are pretty good gifts. My daughter Allie gave me a gift today-- a quarter from my own coin dish. She was so sweet and excited. It was a special moment. </div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes what we give our dads is really probably about all they deserve. Like most dads we do not always get it right-- maybe almost never. This Christmas don't overlook Joseph silently watching the baby Jesus. Remember a father figure who is living by faith and doing all he knows to do to provide for his child. By most standards, he was failing miserably.</div><div><br></div><div>My dad used to quip that he believed in the Immaculate Conception because Joseph believed it. Imagine the tension. Imagine the faith. Imagine the trust.</div><div><br></div><div>This Christmas, don't forget about the guy who spent most of his life in the tool shed. God can use him to help change the world.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--C3lzAQNJRU/VnjWIeVKl7I/AAAAAAAADRw/2mE_2rqJQus/s640/blogger-image-473514470.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--C3lzAQNJRU/VnjWIeVKl7I/AAAAAAAADRw/2mE_2rqJQus/s640/blogger-image-473514470.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-88465291873989222232015-12-12T09:03:00.001-08:002015-12-28T13:39:36.845-08:00Art Process vs. Art Product: The Journey with Our Lady of GuadalupeOn December 12 there is a celebration in the Americas, and in particular Mexico, for a sacred image.<div><br></div><div>I had the opportunity to write this icon in Christian community this year. This is a picture of the icon I painted.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oUwK7L1oQHs/VmxTSP3vUdI/AAAAAAAADKI/aYV8lx5aNnI/s640/blogger-image--1707173744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oUwK7L1oQHs/VmxTSP3vUdI/AAAAAAAADKI/aYV8lx5aNnI/s640/blogger-image--1707173744.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As an artist and an art professor, I was cautioned by members of the icon writing group, that artists often struggle in these settings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the process of icon writing, there are steps and moments of great prayer, care, and attention. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q0IPIja7iP4/VmxTRd0sygI/AAAAAAAADKA/StQ21PtRWMI/s640/blogger-image--1214581145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q0IPIja7iP4/VmxTRd0sygI/AAAAAAAADKA/StQ21PtRWMI/s640/blogger-image--1214581145.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For a long time I have enjoyed the practice of contemplative prayer, speaking of my work in the studio as a manual act of contemplative prayer. Usually these images are painted on found wood, rough and flawed. The image of the Guardian Angel I paint is simple and sincere. A background, an upside-down teardrop shape, then wings, head, halo, and heart all in white. The prayers are for comfort, hope, healing, love, compassion, and joy wherever they find a place to light. There have now been well over 10,000 of these Guardians painted and shared in our community. Christmas is the busy season for these paintings, often given as gifts. I joked with my fellow icon writers that these Guardians might just well be "redneck icons." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The purpose of an icon is also very different than the purpose of a painting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The icon is meant to be an object that is sacred. The icon is not something that is prayed "to" in worship, it is an image that is prayed "through"-- a window or a glimpse into the divine -- a mode to show God to the faithful. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As the son of the Southern Baptist church, that was not a part of my rearing in the Christian faith. Icons were not considered glimpses of God, but barriers to God equivalent to idols. In particular, prayers to Mary or the Saints were thought to be misdirected. If we can call directly on Jesus, why go through a sort of heavenly </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">bureaucratic line up? Baptists make the direct call to the big boss, no middle management needed. Very democratic, I suppose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I was drawn to this image of the Guadalupe icon for several reasons. The first was that it is wildly popular in Hispanic communities. At the flea market, on tattoos, and on air fresheners, Guadalupe is well loved by ordinary people. In that way, it seemed approachable for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, the origin story of this image is really interesting. The story goes that a peasant farmer named Juan Diego, not really someone who had much clout in the 1500's. A widower ripe for a midlife crisis, Juan Diego saw a vision of Mary near what we would call Mexico City. At that time, it was a hillside that had been a sacred place to the people in Aztec culture. This was a time of great cultural transition, and it could be argued, (and has been frequently) that neither the Spanish Conquistadors, the Catholic Church, nor the Aztec civilization were all that helpful to the common Mexican farmer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So Mary tells Juan Diego to go tell the Archbishop to build a church on this hill. Juan Diego does this. The bishop gets down to brass tacks. He needed Mary to send him a sign if he was to believe the hallucinations of a farmer who may have just been hitting the mescaline. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Juan Diego is afraid to return to the hill, being caught between a bishop and a queen is enough to make any pawn feel threatened at any angle. Even as he seeks to avoid Mary, she calls to him. She sends him up to the top of the hill to fetch some Spanish roses, not your typical sight in that time or place. He gathers them in his cloak, a cactus-fiber tilma. When he returns to Mary, she arranges the flowers in the tilma, and tells Juan Diego not to show anyone the roses until he sees the Archbishop. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He runs off to do her bidding, and after some grief from his entourage, Juan Diego opens his robe to show the roses to the Archbishop. There are roses, but also the legendary image of Our Lady of Guadalupe emblazoned on the cloak, Mary, the Mother of God.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Archbishop gets the message, Mary gets her church, and Juan Diego loses the shirt off his back. The peasant's tilma with the miraculous image still resides in the church on Tepeyac Hill. Juan Diego gets to be a saint long after his death so it probably is a win-win.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As we wrote the icon, I asked a friend who knows this story and liberation theology why this image is so popular. I thought it could be seen as a tool for oppressing millions. Her opinion stuck with me. "This image is not something the church gave to the people, this is something a peasant gave the church. Our Lady of Guadalupe is sign that says even the poorest of us can have a direct encounter with the divine." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That sounds like the story of Mary, away in a manger I sang about as a Baptist kid. The ordinary becomes sacred. God is born to be with us. We should not fear what God continues to do for the poor and the oppressed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In that way, maybe my Guardian angels are redneck icons written for a community of ordinary Joes and Juans. Maybe all icons are meant for the ordinary to remember that the divine is with us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am not sure how the story of my Guardians ends. I thought it would have ended long ago. Some months are tight, but so far I have not lost my shirt. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nkE0znF9_1Y/VmxYFuw3WCI/AAAAAAAADKY/frsGvuYpCkU/s640/blogger-image--1726399897.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nkE0znF9_1Y/VmxYFuw3WCI/AAAAAAAADKY/frsGvuYpCkU/s640/blogger-image--1726399897.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am no peasant farmer, in fact I am a college faculty member. I am in a position envied by many in a field that is strewn with adjuncts and part-timers. I am certain some of them see my paintings and recognize the miraculous nature of how I wound up making a living doing these little angel paintings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I often hear sharp criticisms about the way I teach and the quality of the work my students produce. My educational philosophy privileges process over product. The joy of art is in the making, the art is in the work of making the mark not in the mark itself. I want my students to believe that proposals, experiments, explorations, risks, and reflections are equal to or greater than the individual finished work. I still want final products to be perfect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When I look at the image of the Guadalupe, I see the journey of Juan Diego. He participated in the making of a powerful image. He held the materials in his hands. He followed the steps as instructed. The result was a transformative piece on a found object. Juan Diego arrived at a finished piece by following his intuition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Some day, maybe an art historian will see value in the thousands of little scraps of wood spread around the buckle of the Bible Belt as something worth considering. Probably not. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have to hold the materials. I have to follow the steps in faith. I have to pray that what I do can make a difference where I am. That is the life of the artist, I suppose. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When I brought my icon home it met with mixed reviews. My mom said she wanted one. She said it is different than my other work. Mom is hard to read. My brother Scott asked me three times if I had painted it myself, perhaps a commentary on the quality of work that he thinks I can muster with a brush, or a suggestion that the image was not mine to paint. He is hard to read. My wife, Patrice said it was amazing. I heard this as supportive. I was hard of hearing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On Thursday, feeling the impulse to share it, I picked it up and took it to Fr. Jim at St. Christopher's in Spartanburg. He was very kind and gracious. We discussed it as a piece that might play a role in the life of the parish, perhaps welcoming new voices into our life as a congregation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Last night, Patrice and I were on a date. I told her about my struggles with my art, my teaching, and my own vocational fears. I mentioned the the icon workshop had stirred up question for me in many areas. I told her I had given it to Father Jim and she looked astonished. I soon learned that she did not intend for this piece to be released into the world the way my Guardians so often take flight. This was an image she held sacred. A symbol of her effort to support me in my winding journey in faith and in art. It was a part of my legacy she intended to protect. Quickly an e-mail was drafted to the priest, setting the course for the image to return home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fr. Jim did not bat an eye in returning it to her. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Patrice could see the value in the process and the beauty in the end result. She has helped me hold the materials, and keep them organized in my studio, no small miracle. She has been my companion on this long journey of prayer and art, faith and vocation. She is the reason I have a shirt or two without paint stains down the front.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Patrice helps me remember that we share this work and the objects that result.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As my Guardians fly out the door this season, I am thankful for the mothers I have known. Protective, supportive, defenders of the smallest of us, it is mothers who can help us understand how to carefully hold what we are given. If we listen they will tell us important steps in the process, how to arrange the composition, and when to share the final work with the critics. They can help us be who we are and live into what we can be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thank you mothers, full of grace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I believe we are each made in God's own image. God has a lot of different looks, but all our images are God's, and all of them are still in process.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-13045208901593780452014-12-23T11:38:00.001-08:002014-12-23T11:38:45.047-08:00Guardians Featured on Studio 62<a href="http://www.carolinascw.com/story/27694395/artist-kristofer-neely-shares-the-story-behind-his-angel-art?fb_action_ids=903995712974485&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.VJm069YkvlE.like&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B895319623823353%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.recommends%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%22.VJm069YkvlE.like%22%5D">http://www.carolinascw.com/story/27694395/artist-kristofer-neely-shares-the-story-behind-his-angel-art?fb_action_ids=903995712974485&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.VJm069YkvlE.like&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B895319623823353%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.recommends%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%22.VJm069YkvlE.like%22%5D</a>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-36442861268608892512014-12-22T18:21:00.001-08:002014-12-22T18:25:29.741-08:00Elevating Angels: About A Certain Poor ShepherdEvery year St. Christopher's Episcopal Church holds a Christmas Eve service for families. This year it will be at 4pm on Dec. 24th. At this service, children act out the story of Jesus' birth.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BMHiH7Tf_ck/VJjRt5qbCII/AAAAAAAADIs/mK7WJJ8QUVg/s640/blogger-image-815886907.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BMHiH7Tf_ck/VJjRt5qbCII/AAAAAAAADIs/mK7WJJ8QUVg/s640/blogger-image-815886907.jpg"></a></div><br><div><br></div><div>As long as we have had children, we have participated in this service. Michael, our oldest, usually is a shepherd. His younger sisters are usually sheep. Last year Allie and Caroline insisted on wearing hot pink tutus with their sheep costumes. With a 20 month-old and a 3 year-old sheep, it was good to have a shepherd who is used to herding young sheep. Michael did a great job making sure Allie and Caroline stayed corralled in the right places and got home safely to our pew. He has a lot of experience helping us guide those two girls.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kCBRcJDnCgo/VJjRrrhIjcI/AAAAAAAADIc/FMu7o_En1QI/s640/blogger-image--1256773545.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kCBRcJDnCgo/VJjRrrhIjcI/AAAAAAAADIc/FMu7o_En1QI/s640/blogger-image--1256773545.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This year, his sisters have been elevated to a new role. They are going to be angels announcing the birth of the Christchild. Sudden outbursts and joyful exuberance that may strike fear into the hearts of shepherds is kind of their pace right now. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J7AolopEO3g/VJjRsiLgZcI/AAAAAAAADIk/ByhY0MOOreE/s640/blogger-image--1721956849.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J7AolopEO3g/VJjRsiLgZcI/AAAAAAAADIk/ByhY0MOOreE/s640/blogger-image--1721956849.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As I was painting my Guardian angels in the studio this week, I could not help but chuckle thinking about my angels in these new roles. Poor Michael. He spent the last few years helping his little sisters. Now they have been promoted to the roles of telling him where to go and what to do! Michael is getting practice with this at home from them this year as well.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h5vby_sf1Ro/VJjRoYP8Y4I/AAAAAAAADH8/HzIqFHCNfT0/s640/blogger-image-343146632.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h5vby_sf1Ro/VJjRoYP8Y4I/AAAAAAAADH8/HzIqFHCNfT0/s640/blogger-image-343146632.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We brought the costumes home and Patrice has been making a few alterations on the sewing machine. Enjoy this silly photo shoot as a little gift. It should be quiet a service with lively actors like these! </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GSN4iAXlXf4/VJjRpU6cDwI/AAAAAAAADIE/qpM8e7_52R0/s640/blogger-image--820790479.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GSN4iAXlXf4/VJjRpU6cDwI/AAAAAAAADIE/qpM8e7_52R0/s640/blogger-image--820790479.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May the joy of Christmas and a message of hope find a place in your heart this season. Peace on the Earth! Goodwill to all people!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OL9-yo6XRWE/VJjRni6tuPI/AAAAAAAADH0/1YwUuV6Po5M/s640/blogger-image-780425892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OL9-yo6XRWE/VJjRni6tuPI/AAAAAAAADH0/1YwUuV6Po5M/s640/blogger-image-780425892.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Merry Christmas from Wet Paint Syndrome!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-05zlfK2WZA4/VJjRq8anQ_I/AAAAAAAADIU/itrYzQmpLbM/s640/blogger-image-2017363211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-05zlfK2WZA4/VJjRq8anQ_I/AAAAAAAADIU/itrYzQmpLbM/s640/blogger-image-2017363211.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for all of your continued encouragement and support!</div><div><br></div><div>Kris Neely</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZOgJ_YnukpI/VJjRqLafFoI/AAAAAAAADIM/OozAgsJRk7Y/s640/blogger-image-1294873418.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZOgJ_YnukpI/VJjRqLafFoI/AAAAAAAADIM/OozAgsJRk7Y/s640/blogger-image-1294873418.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-34964723361249676672014-12-18T22:31:00.003-08:002014-12-18T22:32:48.857-08:00Get Local Art Gifts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rosie the Riveter stares down the Guy Fawkes mask in the Chapman Gallery in the Campus Life building. Located at opposite ends of the hallway, the two pieces mark the end and beginning of Kris Neely’s art exhibit, titled Iconic.</div>
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“I hope it serves as an invitation for students to consider making studio art part of their liberal arts experience,” Neely says.</div>
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Neely is an assistant professor and coordinator of Wofford’s studio art department. He also owns and directs Wet Paint Syndrome, a professional art studio in Spartanburg.</div>
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“I think it’s important for students to see me working, to engage in my work and in my process,” says Neely.</div>
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The exhibit features pop culture icons such as Martha Stewart and Elvis Presley as well as famous figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and artist Shepard Fairey. Some of their images are fractured and torn. An interactive piece opens to re- veal Britney Spears. Across the hallway and to the left is a colorful image of Jesus Christ.</div>
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Neely juxtaposes these famous faces with photographs of nameless people. Neely points to three images of an unnamed woman who appears in a fashion magazine.</div>
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“It’s almost as if the person is not important. So what I’ve done is to try to do a treatment here that might cause us to look more at the human aspect of it rather than just the fashion aspect of it,” Neely says.</div>
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Of Rosie the Riveter, Neely says: “That image became the face of a lot of working women who were the reason why the United States could be successful in World War II. And yet, this is the face you remember, not necessarily the faces of the individual riveters.”</div>
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Neely’s artwork often snatches inspiration from people in his own life. A series of mechanic’s trays painted with an ambiguous silhouette belonged to a real mechanic. After he passed away, his wife asked Neely to use the trays, all of which were handmade, in his work. Other pieces represent a more personal relationship to Neely.</div>
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The cover piece for the exhibit is one of Neely’s signature guardian angles. The original piece was painted in memory of his deceased brother on a piece of found wood.</div>
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“My mom wanted something to remind her to be hopeful,” Neely says.</div>
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Now, he’s painted over ten thousand of these guardian angels.</div>
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“It was taking on a life of its own,” Neely says, recalling how requests for his guardian angels snowballed.</div>
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The cover piece, already sold, is displayed outside of the gallery space.</div>
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“I decided to break through what is traditionally the boundaries of this gallery space. The idea is that this show is sort of beyond the gallery,” says Neely. “What is art that goes in a gallery? What is art that doesn’t go in a gallery?”</div>
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The piece, titled Guardian on Abandoned Canvas is symmetrically aligned with another piece, titled Guardian on Discarded Sign. The latter features the literal word, guardian, printed on an old Dr. Pepper sign. “I think people tend to appreciate when artists can make fun of themselves. It does have a little bit of significance to me because my older brother’s favorite beverage was Dr. Pepper. So I think of that as a tribute to my brother Erik in a way, that I’ve created this 10,000 angels later,” says Neely.</div>
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The exhibit will remain in the Chapman Gallery until Oct. 15.</div>
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“There’s a tremendous value for us to have the opportunity to look at a body of work, up close and personal. Not just photographs of the work, but to see the physical work the way it’s presented, and for us to question that and have dialogue,” Neely says.</div>
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“We need to have places where students can engage with art, where it’s accessible to them,” he adds.</div>
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I am honored to have his eye on the show.<div><br><div><br></div><div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; font-weight: 300; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To See: Iconic at the Chapman Gallery at Wofford College</span></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4rem; padding: 0px; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2014-09-05T10:31:36+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SEPTEMBER 5, 2014</time> BY <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://neelyprojects.com/author/neelysj/" class="entry-author-link" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; text-decoration: none;">NEELYSJ</a></span></span></p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="attachment_1260" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px auto 2.4rem; width: 310px;"><a href="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_58421.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1260" alt="Monumental and miniature works contemplate one another in the Chapman Gallery at Wofford College" src="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_58421-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" scale="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Monumental and miniature works contemplate one another in the Chapman Gallery at Wofford College</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Description</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not only to see, but to encounter.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the <a title="Theology of the Icon" href="http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/icon.html#item2" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">theology of the icon in Orthodox Christian tradition</a>, one beholds a holy image not solely for the sake of moral or spiritual education. The icon is understood as a channel, a door, through which one looks into a sacred dimension, and by which one may encounter the sacred coming into our world from that other place. This communication, between our world and another, is more than a passage of the spiritual through a material work of art. The icon is an incarnation, the fulfillment of the physical and human through the presence of the divine in it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In “Iconic”, artist <a title="Kris Neely" href="http://www.kristoferneely.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Kris Neely</a> gathers multiple artistic and cultural traditions to create sarcastic, splintered, holy images in which the sacred stands among us.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neely presents monumental images of heroes–artistic, cultural, religious. He deploys recognizable artistic conventions–enlarged, pixelated, duplicated, printed photos of celebrities and stars, in the tradition of <a title="Andy Warhol" href="http://www.warhol.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Andy Warhol</a>, <a title="Roy Lichtenstein" href="http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Roy Lichtenstein</a>, and <a title="Shepard Fairey" href="http://www.obeygiant.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Shepard Fairey</a>–in what first appears as social commentary on fame and success.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Neely has entered into his images, tearing them apart and reassembling them to create innumerable fractures in these beautiful and compelling faces. Painted, marked, nailed, assembled, layered on actual doors, raw plywood, found material, and discarded paintings by friends and colleagues, the works are massive collages. Built from multiple sources and orchestrated by Neely, the works express the collective foundation of famous imagery. But they are far more. Intimate, vulnerable gestures characterize the images he has chosen, and his work of tearing, organizing, cutting, trimming, and painting enhances the sense of fragility in these large pieces. A spirit of care and veneration pervades the work. But too, a sense of the ridiculous–of both scale and subject matter–balances the risk of too much religious piety or social critique, and has the effect of disarming the viewer and enhancing the seriousness of the encounter with these powerful, broken, watching people.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To push this sobering humor even further, Neely has placed opposite the large works a wall of miniatures. Composed of salvaged photographs of unnamed people, small assemblages of faceless silhouettes on machine hardware, and burning portraits of both too-famous and violently-marginalized artists, these pieces speak of the beauty and ridiculousness of us all, and the terrible power ignored in each of us when we do not achieve success by other’s standards. There is a violence in these pictures. In contrast to their large, pop-art siblings opposite them, these smaller works bear the traces of a probing German tradition of painting in which photorealism and expressionism efface one another, deepening the inaccessibility of the subject. The marks of <a title="Paul Klee" href="http://www.paulklee.net/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Paul Klee</a>,<a title="Gerhard Richter" href="http://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Gerhard Richter</a>, and <a title="Anselm Kiefer" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kief/hd_kief.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Anslem Kiefer</a>are here. These portraits of the unknown and abandoned, humble when first noticed, menace the show with an accusing factuality. They are real; they cannot be denied.</span></p><div id="attachment_1261" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px auto 2.4rem; width: 235px;"><a href="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_5833-e1409877968670.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1261" alt="Faceless, nameless, brooding" src="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_5833-e1409877968670-225x300.jpg" width="225" height="300" scale="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto;"></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Faceless, nameless, brooding</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The combined power of these images–large and small, cliche and obscure, religious and economic, reproduced and handcrafted, steeped in multiple artistic traditions sometimes in conflict with one another–both stills and overwhelms. Neely has created a space of sideways humor and sincere reverence, of threat and peace.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In “Iconic”, Neely offers an encounter with the sacred, that beauty and power within us all, evident in the saints and heroes and lost ones we revere; and the smoldering question it requires all of us to answer: what will become of it in us?</span></p><div id="attachment_1265" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px auto 2.4rem; width: 310px;"><a href="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_5831.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1265" alt="Detail of Graceland Altarpiece" src="http://neelyprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_5831-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" scale="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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<span style="background-color: white;">Kristofer M. Neely combines his affection for found objects, street and outsider art, and altered images in this exploration of the sacred and secular in contemporary culture.<br /><br />Professor Neely serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Studio Art at Wofford. A Brother in the monastic Order of St. Edward the Confessor, Neely has long considered his art making to be a manual act of contemplative prayer.</span></div>
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Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-10598302075686997022014-07-18T17:51:00.001-07:002014-07-18T18:01:05.800-07:00Interview on Fox Carolina<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This is the link to my interview with Fox Carolina before the July Art Walk.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I tell the story about the Guardians I paint.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u>http://www.foxcarolina.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10375751</u></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u><br></u></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u><br></u></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-85255547108539866162014-05-26T04:43:00.002-07:002014-05-26T04:43:49.597-07:00No News is Good News?It is often said that no news is good news.<br />
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Kris worked on several projects this Spring including:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Circumpliance: The Decomposition of the Piano</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Collaborative Sound and Sculpture Installation</span> with Dr. Peter B. Kay<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Slide Room Gallery, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Dwell With Us: New Guardians by Kris Neely</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Juice Bar Gallery, St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, Spartanburg, SC</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: small; line-height: 15px; opacity: 1;">December 2013 - April 2014</span>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-42901927525658626062013-12-25T05:31:00.001-08:002013-12-25T05:31:53.336-08:00Merry Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U0RObzQ3Yzw/UrreR7lH5lI/AAAAAAAADCk/mhqS1vU6sk0/s640/blogger-image--412512494.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U0RObzQ3Yzw/UrreR7lH5lI/AAAAAAAADCk/mhqS1vU6sk0/s640/blogger-image--412512494.jpg"></a></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-38434001387115705282013-11-08T04:07:00.001-08:002013-11-08T04:07:40.517-08:00Swing Low at the Bijou<div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X2CvllSSEdY/UnzUCH8X9ZI/AAAAAAAADCE/sj6h2R0QdPs/s640/blogger-image-493071863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X2CvllSSEdY/UnzUCH8X9ZI/AAAAAAAADCE/sj6h2R0QdPs/s640/blogger-image-493071863.jpg"></a></div>http://neelyprojects.com/see-swing-low-bijou-gallery/</div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Kind words from my big brother. Thanks for your kindness and support, Scott Neely. I am honored you would even take the time to write about my work.</div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Join us for the Art Walk on Nov. 21, 2013!</div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Swing Low: New Guardians </span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">By Kris Neely</span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Nov. 9-Dec. 3</span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Presented by Carri Bass Photography</span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">at the Bijou Gallery</span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">147 E. Main St. </span></font></div><div><font face=".Helvetica NeueUI"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">downtown Spartanburg, </span></font><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">SC</span></div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div></div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">The Bijou is across from Smith's Drug Store.</div><div style="font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pvJioDpFxqA/UnzUCt0AMaI/AAAAAAAADCM/pGQx0TnuokE/s640/blogger-image--1530531180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pvJioDpFxqA/UnzUCt0AMaI/AAAAAAAADCM/pGQx0TnuokE/s640/blogger-image--1530531180.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><em style="box-sizing: border-box; "></em></p><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; font-weight: 300; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; ">To See: Swing Low at the Bijou Gallery</em></h1><div><em style="box-sizing: border-box; ">By Scott Neely</em></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Description</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a title="Kris Neely website" href="http://www.kristoferneely.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">Kris Neely ‘s</a> new <a title="Kris Neely's Guardians" href="http://www.kristoferneely.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">guardians</a> fly. They shouldn’t, cobbled out of rough-sawn plywood, riddled with screws, colored with graffiti by hands other than his own. These angels should fall.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But they rise. Defying their materiality–heavy, scarred by splinters, hammered–Neely’s new guardians at the Bijou Gallery in downtown Spartanburg, SC elevate themselves and those who stand before them. He has appropriately titled his show “Swing Low”: his pictures, so like our own physical selves they should drag, wait instead to lift us up.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neely, who serves as <a title="Wofford College Art & Art History" href="http://www.wofford.edu/arthistory/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Studio Art </a>at <a title="Wofford College" href="http://neelyprojects.com/see-swing-low-bijou-gallery/www.wofford.edu" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">Wofford College</a>, has painted over 10,000 angels in his guardian series. Drawing on aesthetic and spiritual connections to <a title="Outside Art" href="http://www.rawvision.com/what-outsider-art" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">outsider art</a>, <a title="American Folk Art" href="http://www.folkartmuseum.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">American folk art</a>, and <a title="Greek Orthodox Icons" href="http://www.goarch.org/multimedia/clipart/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">Christian icons</a>, the vast number of these images present on two-dimensional surfaces, usually single slats of found wood or narrow canvases. Neely understands the repetitive act of creating these paintings over more than a decade as a spiritual discipline. Many have found comfort in their straightforward simplicity.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His new work opens in new dimensions. Breaking from a single plane, Neely offers multi-layered assemblages in guardian form. These pictures, while retaining all the disarming directness of his original imagery, seem to fly through the complex movement of shadow and color. Their component parts turn, intersect, break from one another. The sculptural quality of the new series recalls the elegant rawness of <a title="Richard Tuttle" href="http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/474/richard-tuttle/exhibitions" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; ">Richard Tuttle</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It has taken stamina and courage for Neely to sustain the production of so large and consistent a body of work over so many years–stamina for the sheer volume of work created, and courage because his work often defies expectations of sophistication in professional art.<a title="Kris Neely's Guardians" href="http://www.kristoferneely.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; ">The sincerity of his spiritual </a>vision may explain his persistence on both counts. These new guardians provide a startling new direction in his ideas and craft, without losing the heart of his original endeavor: art that cares for those who experience it.</span></p></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-86260786676534708792013-10-22T13:52:00.001-07:002013-10-22T13:52:51.306-07:00See you at the Bijou!Don't forget to join us Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 6-10:30pm for the closing reception of All Souls!<div><br></div><div>The Bijou Gallery </div><div>147 E. Main Street</div><div>Spartanburg, SC</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BXOP1H_Z674/UmbloXqynaI/AAAAAAAADBs/dGap1tm5YjQ/s640/blogger-image-2085438276.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BXOP1H_Z674/UmbloXqynaI/AAAAAAAADBs/dGap1tm5YjQ/s640/blogger-image-2085438276.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156851997664608469.post-89129410032034728182013-10-18T17:26:00.001-07:002013-10-18T17:30:58.594-07:00Dad's version of the story<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q2fW0QWGtdA/UmHRqqOR5OI/AAAAAAAADBc/xqoADVfE63Y/s640/blogger-image--184209188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q2fW0QWGtdA/UmHRqqOR5OI/AAAAAAAADBc/xqoADVfE63Y/s640/blogger-image--184209188.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div id="primary" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; "><div id="content" role="main" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><article id="post-3132" class="post-3132 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-prayers-and-poems" style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 2em; position: relative; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); "><header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; "><a href="http://kirkhneely.com/2013/10/18/angel-at-our-door/" title="Permalink to ANGEL AT OUR DOOR" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">ANGEL AT OUR DOOR</font></a></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.6em; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; overflow: hidden; "></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.286em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A little less than a month ago I was involved in an accident that was, by most assessments, a close call. Though I have a separated shoulder, the outcome could have been much worse. Our sons, Scott and Kris got news of the accident immediately. Scott received a cell phone call and met me in the emergency room. Kris got word via text message while he was teaching a studio art class at Wofford. Not wanting to disturb his students as they worked on projects of their own, Kris selected a large board and quietly began painting one of his signature Guardians for me.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I understand it, this painting was an act of prayer. If you have seen Kris’s guardians, you know that they are graceful figures with wings folded at their sides. The spontaneous version rendered as a prayer for me was different. This was an angel in flight with wings outstretched like a magnificent condor or a majestic eagle. Since it was painted with me in mind, Kris may have been thinking of a buzzard.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After his class, Kris came to the hospital to drive me back home from the emergency room. While I was still under the influence of morphine, Kris helped Clare settle me in at our home. Then he brought the angel inside and presented it as a gift. I was less than responsive but Clare expressed deep gratitude for both of us.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The truth is that there are some situations where a calm angel with folded wings is exactly what we need. But there are also those times when we need a big hunking angel actively flying about offering protection to us.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I was restored to my senses the scripture that came to my mine was a Psalm that depicts God as a large mother bird, an eagle perhaps. The verse is from the same Psalm that mentions guardian angels. Verse 4 reads:</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and under his wings you will find refuge.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clare wanted Kris’s new angel close by our front door, so there it will be. The Biblical passage that came to her mind was Psalm 121, especially the line that reads “He guards your going out, and your coming in.” Clare calls this new guardian the going out and coming in angel. Of course, it must be by the front door.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I read Psalm 121 in several translations. I prefer the paraphrase by Eugene Peterson, <i>The Message</i>, because in just two verses the word guard is used five times.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God guards you from every evil,</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> He guards your very life.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He guards you when you leave and when you return,</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> He guards you now, he guards you always. (Psalm 121:7-8)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> As you might imagine, Kris has a new line of guardians. These have outstretched wings.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Through the years, Clare and I have felt that our children were a blessing from God. That has been reaffirmed in this situation. Not only have Scott and Kris, who live here in Spartanburg, been helpful, so, too, have our children who are away from us in other states.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Someone recently asked Scott if it was difficult to live in the same town with us. His answer was sheer genius. “Mom and Dad behave themselves pretty well. I sometimes remind them that their children, especially those here in town, will be the ones who chose their nursing home and push their wheel chair.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scott and Kris are currently having an art show together. The show is entitled “All Souls.” From now until October 25 you can see their work exhibited at</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bijou Gallery</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">147 E. Main St.</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spartanburg, SC</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Next Thursday, October 24, 2013, you are invited to attend their reception from 6:00 PM until 10:30 PM. The event is sponsored by Carri Bass Photography. The Bijou Gallery is directly across Main Street from Smith’s Durgs Store #1</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The description of the show sounds absolutely fascinating to me. Get this:</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In their joint exhibition “All Souls”, brothers Kris and Scott Neely fill the Bijou Gallery in downtown Spartanburg, SC with spiritual images. Developing his Guardian motif, Kris Neely presents large wood assemblages in angelic form. The aerial playfulness of his constructions overcomes the weight of their material composition. In contrast, Scott Neely’s minimalist paper installations lightly balance on the gallery surface. His repetition of simple patterns evokes the steady discipline of meditation. Paired with the Neely brothers’ work, photographer Carri Bass shares pictures of the female body in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Intimate and bold, her photos draw together the opposite forces of the show, focusing both the physical power of Kris’s paintings and the exposed delicacy of Scott’s, to communicate the strength and vulnerability of all souls.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope you will consider joining us next Thursday evening. It will be a wonderful opportunity to purchase Christmas gifts ahead of the rush. Clare and I will be there. 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role="main" aria-label="Message body"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div class="msg-body inner undoreset" role="main" aria-label="Message body"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“All Souls”<br>Paintings & Drawings<br>by<br><a href="http://www.wetpaintsyndrome.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kristofer</a> & <a href="http://neelyprojects.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Neely</a><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var><br><br><span id="lw_1380337140_2" class="yshortcuts"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">October 10-25, 2013</a></span></span></div><div id="yiv985093276" class="msg-body inner undoreset" role="main" aria-label="Message body"><div><div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Presented by <a href="http://www.carribass.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carri Bass Photography</a><br>at the Bijou Gallery<br><span id="lw_1380337140_4" class="yshortcuts"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">100 E. Main St.</a><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">Spartanburg, SC</a></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><a href="http://www.downtownspartanburg.org/events.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Art Walk</a>: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">Thursday, October 17 6:00pm-10:30pm</a><br>Reception: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">Thursday, October 24 6:00pm-10:30pm</a></span></div></div></div>Krishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06713664607144958504noreply@blogger.com0