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E. Charles Rolwing III

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Chicago artist April 4, 2016 E. Charles Rolwing Statement Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka The making of art is for me a journey of construction and destruction. Each brush stroke comes out of my very soul, a place deep in my subconscious. I paint with my heart on my sleeve. The most I can offer that is unique is honesty to my emotions, to lay out that which makes me human. My imagery comes from working in my sketchbooks. That is where I work out the intellectual aspects, symbols and the problems of composition and color theory. There is a place between the intellectual (classic problems of composition and content), and the ethereal (subconscious) where true meaning emerges. It is here that new ideas emerge. I work an idea in dozens of studies before I begin a he painting. Then, when I begin the painting I have a library of ideas and a basic idea of where to start. From that point the painting becomes an idea in itself. It is a reaction to a self contained idea of itself. Each movement follows another, each a reaction to the previous stroke. It is here that the image begins to emerge. I am careful to allow the subconscious to breathe freely, to be open and honest to what is happening, to be in the moment. It happens sometimes to destroy the painting in the process. I wipe out, scrape, repaint, and over paint the image. No painting in my studio is safe. The finished painting is that idea in itself, something to be experienced as a self-contained entity. The viewing of a painting physically changes the chemistry of the brain, and it lives with the viewer in memory. It is the private language of the artist and the viewer. We share that time together.

Torrent, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

December 30, 2020
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The Visitation, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

December 23, 2020
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Big Shoes, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

December 23, 2020
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The Imposter, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

December 7, 2020
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Art Show, oil on canvas, 30” x 30”

November 22, 2020
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God’s Little Green Acres, oil on canvas, 48” x 36”

November 18, 2020
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Figure with Blossoms, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

October 30, 2020
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Tears to Pearls, woodcut, 12” x 9”

October 28, 2020
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Prisoner, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

October 28, 2020
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The Mountain Smiled, oil on canvas, 30 “ x 40”

October 28, 2020
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Superhero, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

October 25, 2020
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Revenge of the Lawn, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

October 1, 2020
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Isolation Points, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

September 28, 2020
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Interior / Exterior, oil on canvas, 40” x 60”

September 13, 2020
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Daydreamer, oil on canvas, 30” x 60”

September 12, 2020
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The Net Caster, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

September 6, 2020
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Figure in the Shadows, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

September 6, 2020
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The Age of Reason, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

September 1, 2020
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21st Century Ulysses, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

September 1, 2020
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Selfie, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

August 24, 2020
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Brothers, (Sacred and the Profane), oil on canvas, 36” x 48”

August 19, 2020
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The Funeral of Paddy Dignam, oil on canvas 36”X 48”

August 16, 2020
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Tree of Life, woodcut, 9” x 12”

August 14, 2020
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Tears in the Rain, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”

August 11, 2020
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Ice Cream Man, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

August 2, 2020
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Distancing, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

July 21, 2020
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Windows of Perception, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

June 29, 2020
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Metamorphosis 2020, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

June 20, 2020
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May 30, 2020

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The Green Ribbon, oil on canvas, 30 x 30”

May 28, 2020
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Isolation Windows, woodcut on paper, 9” x 12”

May 22, 2020
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Convergence, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 19, 2020
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Thin Red Veil, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 15, 2020
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Confliction, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 15, 2020
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Poof, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 8, 2020
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Isolation Beard, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 7, 2020
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The Philosopher’s Tree, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

May 7, 2020
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Take Me to the River/ Isolated, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”

April 15, 2020
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The artist in the studio

April 4, 2020
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Man w/ Houseplants, oil on canvas, 30” x 30”

March 28, 2020
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