The Throne Room
Price range: $75.00 through $5,000.00
The Throne Room 24 x 36 mixed media on canvas
The Throne Room is another collaboration between Nick Cerrato and myself. The Throne Room is part of a four-part series of spiritual allegories he has been wanting to create for some time. Birthday is the central painting that depicts the workings of heaven, God’s work. Jesus Weeps is another that tells the story of how Jesus’s sacrifice seems almost in vain, as we don’t seem to be paying attention, lost in our sin. The fourth part is still in the planning stages. I am so thrilled to be collaborating with Nick Cerrato, an established artist who is known for his spiritual allegorical abstract expressionistic work. Together, we are building a body of work for a touring exhibition that we plan to present at nonprofit art centers throughout the SE.
The goal here is to harness Nick’s magnificent gift, which is his freedom. These brilliant sweeps of paint and Nick’s expressive mark making is how the painting begins. Nick’s ability to get out of his own way is off the charts, partly because he has Cerebral Palsy and can only make spontaneous, impulsive marks; marks most abstract expressionists would die to be able to make. The other thing you need to know about Nick is he has an artist’s eye and an artist’s soul. There is no room for the slightest contrivance or fakery. His job is to strike, then get out of the way. All artists are two people: the one who paints and the other to tell him when to stop. Nick is a pure abstract expressionist, in the truest sense of the word. Robert’s role in this stage is to furnish paint and direct the general contours of the map they had in mind, and otherwise to simply allow Nick to do his magic. There is a general consensus between the two as to when enough is enough.
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The goal here is to harness Nick's magnificent gift, which is his freedom. These brilliant sweeps of paint and Nick's expressive mark making is how the King of the Metaverse begins. Nick's ability to get out of his own way is off the charts, partly because he has Cerebral Palsy and can only make spontaneous, impulsive marks; marks most abstract expressionists would die to be able to make. The other thing you need to know about Nick is he has an artist's eye and an artist's soul. There is no room for the slightest contrivance or fakery. His job is to strike, then get out of the way. All artists are two people: the one who paints and the other to tell him when to stop. Nick is a pure abstract expressionist, in the truest sense of the word. Robert's role in this stage is to furnish paint and direct the general contours of the map they had in mind, and otherwise to simply allow Nick to do his magic. There is a general consensus between the two as to when enough is enough.
After this stage they let the thing dry. Even with acrylics, it takes a week or two to fully cure. The surface texture is now very sculptural; it's almost a bas relief. Robert's goal in the next stage is to work around and enhance Nicks initial marks, without altering or negating them in any way. Robert describes it as "putting on a glove, without moving the glove in the process," or like putting together a puzzle. Now channeling NETI, and input from Nick, Robert begins to pull out the multitudes of imaginary forms and characters begging to be released from the stone, now the fixed initial layer.
If you look closely at The Throne Room, you will notice features, figures, scenes and objects, in addition to the three principal characters in the drama playing out on and above the Good Earth, which is captured in a bird cage, separate from heaven, almost shut out. God represented by the red shape central, is flanked by two angels. The steps leading to heaven are suggested linearly.
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