The next artist the CCC visited was Charles Arnoldi, who takes on various mediums and tools from sticks to chainsaws to reflect gestural movements, as well as experimenting with form and color through a series of grids or ellipse paintings.
A group picture with Charles Arnoldi
For lunch time, the CCC dined at Joe's restaurant where they had a chance to devour entrees like Scottish Salmon or Mushroom Ravioli.
After a great lunch, the next studio was collage artist Alexis Smith. Smith takes on collages, assemblage and appropriation while referencing popular culture. Her work is rooted in Southern California art and is critically placed alongside Edward Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, and Vija Celmins.
Next, the CCC visited Charles Christopher Hill who creates multiple layered acrylic paintings, which provides a smooth surface that can be either transparent or opaque. As a minimalist, Hill's paintings may show seemingly simple gestures of rows of thick lines, spirals, and dots.
A detail of the dripping edge of Hill's piece (photo by Lindsey Tognetti)The last destination of this Venice trip was the studio of Ed Moses. An evermore dynamic painter today as he was decades ago, Moses' abstract paintings focuses on experimenting and broadening the limits of painting through a multitude of series.
