Mood Music
Ginger W. Ware, Solo Exhibition
For immediate release:
Mood Music, Ginger W. Ware Solo Exhibition
Curated by Rebecca Gray
The Art House Gallery for Artsy.net
Exclusively Online at Artsy.net
August 2024
Exhibition Description
Ginger W. Ware's Mood Music is a retrospective exhibit, 2012-2024. The work is loosely representational and autobiographical, creating a dream-like atmosphere through the use of archetypal symbols. Emotional temperature is evoked through a saturated color palette, transparent layers, and gestural brush strokes.
About the Artist
Ginger W. Ware creates autobiographical oil paintings, monotypes, drawings, and weavings that interpret her northeastern Ohio surroundings along with global destinations and journeys. Originally from Wichita, KS, she has lived in and near New York City, Barbados, Philadelphia, Chicago, Reno, NV, and Cleveland, OH. She and her husband Bryan collaborate on various humanitarian projects, including their nonprofit Tuko Pamoja, which supports women and girls in Kenya. Their visits to 9 countries in Africa and Asia along with European and North American travel have continually inspired Ginger’s art practice for the last decade.
Ginger W. Ware holds a BFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011) and a Certificate in Painting from the Art House Studio (Chicago, 2013). Other credentials include an MFA in fiction writing (Columbia Univ., 1988) and an MA in theology (BTS, 2009). A passionate amateur cellist, she is a member of the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra and other ensembles. Her work has been exhibited in many juried shows and can be found in private and public collections nationally. She lives in Cleveland Heights, OH, and is represented by the Art House Gallery.
Artist Statement
The artist’s autobiographical reference material lends the work a role like a journal’s, where daily musings help the writer process and understand the day’s experience. Like a favorite piece of music that recreates the mood and emotion of past experience, the work serves as a memento or souvenir of a particular time and place. The landscapes, botanical and tree paintings, figures and portraits, and textile creations mirror the artist’s indelible experience in permanent visual and tactile form. Personal encounters take on symbolic meaning, like a conversation in a lucid dream. These experiences collectively act as a kind of echolocation, helping the artist know and digest perceptions and feelings on a deeper level. This richly archetypal milieu can then be further interpreted and felt through the viewer’s personal lens.
An actively performing amateur musician, the artist’s cello practice has often informed her subject matter and influenced her loose, rhythmic brushwork. Like the role of silence in a piece of music, the thin, transparent layers and negative space help direct the eye to more saturated, bold passages and linework. Interactions with cultures outside her native North America at times describe wide-angle perspectives very far from home; other work zooms in to meditate at length on everyday details of garden and neighborhood.