COLLABORATIVE WORK
Creating art is like a dialogue between the artist and canvas. Creating Collaborative Art adds the dimension of exchanging ideas with another person as the paint is added to the canvas….”What happens if you try this?....Can we take this in another direction?, etc.” Beginning with flowers (that are similar to many of the life forms on the ocean bottom) David and I started working on each others canvases, eventually sharing the concepts and ideas of new paintings and the back-and-forth of both of us working on the same canvas. The following is the result of this collaboration.
NANSI J. BIELANSKI and DAVID C. GALLUP
For all of us who call ourselves artists, growth in our work comes from personal growth in our lives. Too often, it requires many solitary hours in the studio to translate our personal growth into something which helps us evolve in our work. This year, for me, the sting of that isolation has been soothed by the opportunity to collaborate on some undersea and studio pieces with another artist, David C. Gallup. David and I have had the pleasure of painting and traveling together for a few years now, mainly in classes and workshops, and recently we have begun to weave our shared dive experiences into collaborative paintings in which we each contribute our memory of the scene, our interpretation of the experience, and our own artistic aesthetics and abilities to the work. Our most recent collaboration has produced a painting which pleases me more than any I've ever done alone, and maybe that should not be a surprise. After all, there seems to be little to risk in inviting in another trained eye, another broad mind, another set of talents and skills to add to the work. In"A Deeper Love" we have done exactly that, accomplishing (I believe) more together than either of us might have done alone.
NANSI J. BIELANSKI and DAVID C. GALLUP
For all of us who call ourselves artists, growth in our work comes from personal growth in our lives. Too often, it requires many solitary hours in the studio to translate our personal growth into something which helps us evolve in our work. This year, for me, the sting of that isolation has been soothed by the opportunity to collaborate on some undersea and studio pieces with another artist, David C. Gallup. David and I have had the pleasure of painting and traveling together for a few years now, mainly in classes and workshops, and recently we have begun to weave our shared dive experiences into collaborative paintings in which we each contribute our memory of the scene, our interpretation of the experience, and our own artistic aesthetics and abilities to the work. Our most recent collaboration has produced a painting which pleases me more than any I've ever done alone, and maybe that should not be a surprise. After all, there seems to be little to risk in inviting in another trained eye, another broad mind, another set of talents and skills to add to the work. In"A Deeper Love" we have done exactly that, accomplishing (I believe) more together than either of us might have done alone.
104th California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition
Artists Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup at the California Art Club's Gold Medal Show March 28, 2015, standing in front of their award-winning painting "A Deeper Love".
Our painting "A Deeper Love" sold, and we were awarded the "American Art Collector" Award for Artistic Excellence.
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Collaborative Artists Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup with fellow artists Peter Adams, President of the California Art Club and Karl Dempwolf.
Artist William Wray at his exhibition at the Carnegie Art Museum with Nansi J. Bielanski and David C. Gallup.
Slideshow shows evolution of "A Deeper Love"
Slideshow shows evolution of "A Deeper Love"
