Kevin McCormack

Mixed Media

All of my original drawings, paintings and sculptures were destroyed by the Marshall Fire, in Superior Colorado, on December 30th 2021.

Fire destroys, but it does transform. Fortunately, I had archived photographic images and digital scans of a representative portion of my full body of art work. After the dust settled in April 2022, I initiated a printing project, to restore and reimagine my incinerated work. The new representation of this work introduces revised compositions, colors, tones and scale, in different mediums. These new exhibited pieces on high-density metal and brushed aluminum, are the fruit of reimagined expression of some, but not nearly most, of my lost original art created over several decades.

My series of mythological figures were large paintings on printing paper some measuring as large as 5 x 7 feet. When these same paintings are printed on metal various textured surface effects emerge.

Additionally, I found that my smaller painted images of triangular shapes also display a variety of changing optical effects when printed on brushed aluminum.

The series of Head Portraits were originally done as watercolors and oil pastel on cotton cloth. In the Celtic tradition the head of a person is where they believed the Soul resided. My intention was to continue that tradition by revealing the animating presence of that spirit, which could appear as an animal, botanical or divine face. My graphic art is an extensive collection of line drawings where a diverse range of abstract creatures appear as denizens of sea and air, or as shapeshifting beasts. In some of these renderings it is motion itself, as indicated by the variation and extension of the drawn line that is the subject of the image.

The series entitled Geometricks, are figurative colored drawings, many in gold paint on black surface. They explore themes of falling and rising; and the cycle of birth, death and resurrection. Many of these I have printed on canvas and some on high density metal.

Currently, I am creating expressive figurative line drawings, using ink on paper. In these I find a new source of creative delight.