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Artist Ed Malesky
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Artists WorksHere are some works from Ed's Exhibition showing at the TAC Gallery - 320 East Adams St in downtown Jacksonville, Fl. These pieces can also be bought online. Click on the image to learn more about the work and how it can be yours!
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Featured Artist Exhibition Scheduled May 27th thru Jun 17th, 2022
Reception: Sunday, Jun 11th, 2023, 2pm-4pm
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Show Title: Duality Board Member - Secretary of TAC I’ve always been interested in woodworking and developed my skills to focus on woodturning as art. Creating my art always starts with a beautiful form. Turning wood into these forms is a truly tactile and very enjoyable experience, complicated by the fact that wood is an organic material that moves and distorts as it dries or contains hidden defects. |
Sometimes I can use these features, and sometimes I need to plan ahead to get the form I want.
A beautiful form can be enough, especially when I have used a spectacular piece of wood. However, my real goal is to draw an emotional response from the viewer, so often, this initial form is just the canvas for my work. I love adding color and texture to my pieces using dyes, paints, pyrography, and other processes to allow the viewer to see something beyond just a piece of wood.
The love of color and shapes, and recently physical limits on my woodturning, have also led me into expanding this expression into the world of digital images. I have worked with 3D digital forms for about 15 years, and I’m amazed at the way a computer can generate beautiful images starting with some simple forms. However, an artist needs to add a lot since there are thousands of variables to apply to these simple forms to create a beautiful image. Once all the parameters are set, the computer begins the arduous task of rendering the image, which in many cases, takes more than a day.
When my arthritis became problematic this year. I moved into using artificial intelligence applications to modify my own photographs and 3D digital images. It is amazing what can be generated when I start with a photograph of one of my sculptures, then blend it with an abstract 3D image and then prompt the AI app to visualize the blend matching the concept I have entered. It’s been great fun.
Form and color, texture and complexity are my tools, whether in wood or on paper.
You can see more of Ed's work at the following links:
https://www.pinterest.com/edmalesky/turning-arts/
https://www.pinterest.com/edmalesky/eds-abstractions/
https://www.facebook.com/turningartsgroup/
www.turningartsgroup.com
A beautiful form can be enough, especially when I have used a spectacular piece of wood. However, my real goal is to draw an emotional response from the viewer, so often, this initial form is just the canvas for my work. I love adding color and texture to my pieces using dyes, paints, pyrography, and other processes to allow the viewer to see something beyond just a piece of wood.
The love of color and shapes, and recently physical limits on my woodturning, have also led me into expanding this expression into the world of digital images. I have worked with 3D digital forms for about 15 years, and I’m amazed at the way a computer can generate beautiful images starting with some simple forms. However, an artist needs to add a lot since there are thousands of variables to apply to these simple forms to create a beautiful image. Once all the parameters are set, the computer begins the arduous task of rendering the image, which in many cases, takes more than a day.
When my arthritis became problematic this year. I moved into using artificial intelligence applications to modify my own photographs and 3D digital images. It is amazing what can be generated when I start with a photograph of one of my sculptures, then blend it with an abstract 3D image and then prompt the AI app to visualize the blend matching the concept I have entered. It’s been great fun.
Form and color, texture and complexity are my tools, whether in wood or on paper.
You can see more of Ed's work at the following links:
https://www.pinterest.com/edmalesky/turning-arts/
https://www.pinterest.com/edmalesky/eds-abstractions/
https://www.facebook.com/turningartsgroup/
www.turningartsgroup.com
