Marty Walsh Current Work and Exhibits.

Recent Work


Blue Man 1	Green Man 1	Red Man 1	Yellow Man 1
Oil on Panel 16 x 16" all SOLD similar series is in progress

The Lunchbox Series Phase One
Now showing at the Contemporary Arts Collective OCT 1 - NOV 6, 04 Las Vegas, NV


"Monday"	"Tuesday"	"Wednesday"

"Thursday"	"Friday"

The first statement I wrote for this series was actually one of intent. Before that, it was an idea that had been incubating for some years. A lot of years actually...
Every weekday morning for 15 years, all the years I have been married, I make my husbands lunch for work before heading to the studio. Added up, that routine provides a lot of "Zen" time while doing this. I felt a duty of sort, to provide nutrition and convenience as my part in a greater whole. I often wondered about what the other workers were eating and how the whole act of the packed lunch contributes to that greater whole. I arranged to meet on hardhat jobsites so I could have a look for myself at what people the other workers were eating. Can you tell which lunches are made by a bachelor, by a wife, or if nutrition was a concern? The "Lunchbox" paintings will serve as a remark or possibly even a historic record of a period of time, a look at family structure, or simply a curiosity into the personal.

Whirr Buzz and Presto! Appliances from the atomic age
Showing at the TRIFECTA gallery OCT 29 - DEC 3 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada


"MIXMASTER"	"Mixette"	"JUICIT"	"Ice-O-Mat"

The still life has been considered by art historians to be a lowly genre and perhaps paintings of appliances are sending up such an opinion. Marty Walsh's Atomic Age Appliances are painted in the 18th century style, with a dark background going to infinity: a link with the past. They put the 20th century appliance in the foreground, each in all its insouciance. There is the Pulse-O-Matic blender with its ten buttons and the minty green SHAKEMASTER with its sexy toggle switch. The MIXMASTER, cream-colored matriarch with white bowls, presides over the assembly which includes the princess, a pretty pink Mixette and the evil Presto Hotdogger which actually electrocutes food. This work is clearly about memory reveling in sensual delight but which also carries a darker freight. They re-mind us. They tell us to think again about a time which suddenly seems new, in its apparent innocence when hope and prosperity were fresh. Walsh's paintings ask us to look, be taken by the charm of these paintings and then be still.
excerpt from Essay by Poet and Award winning writer Susan Andrews Grace

Still Life from the "Jackpot Series"


"Once More"	"Almost"	"Next Time"	"Keep Praying"

Las Vegas hasn't been TOO much an influence has it???? There are 15 in the 2003 series, all square and on Canvas. Most have been sold by now, a few are in my gallery and available online, Clarkhouse Gallery in Bangor, ME also has some. The sizes range from 8" up to 15". There are images of Figs, Pistachios, Habaneros, Lemons, Quince, Pears,...in rows of three. The influence of Las Vegas was not clear to me until I approached the end of this series. I have a favorite quotation from Albert Einstien that seems appropriate here -"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in conciousness, call it what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why" This happens to me all the time, I really love the way paintings can speak. I have talked about titles here before. These titles are things I have heard slot players say while imbibing Vegas's number one past time. It's a funny world.

Cakes


Rosemary's Restaurant "IceBox Pie"	Rosemary's Restaurant "Apple Tart"	MGM Grand Series "Capuccino Jaconde"	MGM Grande Series "White Chocolate Rasberry Cheesecake"

Plated dessert paintings above, are inspired by Rosemary's Restaurant and MGM's Pastry Chef Carlos Salazar. It was the coolest thing to go "behind the scenes" to the kitchens of pastry chefs and take pictures of their work. In the pastry kitchen "workshop" of Brenda Richardson at the Flamingo Hilton was and ultra cool experience, she taught me how to pull sugar and she even reproduced some of my paintings of cakes in an amazing sculpture for a Charity Event we did together. The pastry chefs are SUCH artists too!


Detail of Brenda Hitchen's creation. Notice how she made frames of sugar with my victorian cake painting images imbedded in them? Cool!	The flower on top also had embedded painting images. The whole thing is totaly made of sugar!

Materials:
Traditional Oil colors, usually Artist grade Windsor Newton or Gamblin. I work with both Masonite and Canvas as the support. Copal or Damar are used as a medium and turpentine as a solvent. The pictures leave my studio with a coat of damar retouch varnish. If the painting is over a year old before it leaves the studio, I will give it a permanent coat of varnish.