Attn: HOWARD DECKER, The Houston Chronicle

IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

JOSEPH L. KAGLE, JR.

RECEIVES SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Artist JOSEPH L. KAGLE, JR. of KINGWOOD, TEXAS has received FIVE Special Recognition Merit Awards for his artwork in the "7th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition" hosted by  Upstream People Gallery. 

This international exhibition received approximately 300 entries from around the world and 58 artists were selected by the juror Larry Bradshaw, Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, U. S. A.

 Professor Bradshaw states this about this specially recognized work: "'Joseph L. Kagle, Jr. of Kingwood, Texas has a great and wonderful use of pattern and color that is quite arresting. “Building America with Parallax Rainbow #56” (below left), “Parallax Rainbow #27” (below center), “Rainbow Matrix #7”, “Variation on ‘Death of Sardonapolis, by Delacroix #2” are all genius works of art."'

 The exhibition will be featured online during December, 2009 at www.upstreampeoplegallery.com  and continue for 12 months, closing November 30, 2010.

Further information about the artist's work in his own words:

'"Joe Kagle, painter-artist-writer-museum consultant: Artistic statement:

“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Gustave Flaubert

“SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER! THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE; IT’S FIVE YEAR MISSION…”: THIS QUOTATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TELEVISION SHOW (AND THE MOVIES) WAS ABOUT EXPLORING SPACE AS THE FINAL FRONTIER. ACTUALLY THE ‘FINAL FRONTIER’ IS THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY OF AN IDEA, AN IMAGE OR AN IDEATE (IMAGE PLUS IDEA). AND TO FIND/CREATE THIS IDEATE.

A CREATIVE PERSON MUST HAVE A SPECIAL SPACE TO WORK IN, SOMEPLACE THAT IS JUST HIS OR HER OWN. FOR ME, IT IS MY STUDIO BUT EVEN THAT IS NOT A SET PLACE. IT CAN BE A CONVERTED GARAGE FOR LARGE WORKS, A PORCELAIN ENAMEL PLACE FOR WORKS ON STEEL, A LOCATION WHERE A MAJOR WORK IS TO BE INSTALLED, THE COLLEGE WHERE I TEACH, A PARK IN THE SUMMER TIME, A PLAY BEFORE IT STARTS (WITH MY SKETCHPAD IN HAND- JUST IN CASE AN IMAGE STRIKES MY INNER EYE), OR A JUNCTURE OF LINES WHILE WALKING IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON (WHICH I STORE IN MY MIND’S EYE TO DO LATER IN THE ESTABLISHED STUDIO). SOMETIMES, THE STUDIO IS A TABLE IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION SET WITH BOXES OF SUPPLIES STORED BELOW (JUST IN CASE). THE SPACE IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE BUT IT CAN BE PHYSICAL SPACE OR IT CAN BE IMAGINATIVE SPACE IN THE MIND. BUT IT MUST BE A PERSONAL, ARTIST SPACE THAT SUITS THAT ONE CREATIVE HUMAN BEING AND NO OTHER. IN THAT SPACE, THERE IS ORDER (EVEN WHEN ‘MY ORDER’ SEEMS LIKE CHAOS TO ALL OTHERS WHO SEE IT). OUT OF THIS SPECIAL ARRANGED SPACE COME THE FINAL WORKS OF ART THAT BREATHE THE SAME AIR AS THE WORKING SPACE. THE SPACE, THE PROCESS AND THE PRODUCT IN THE CREATIVE ACT OF MAKING A WORK OF ART IS ONE IN THE ARTIST’S WAY OF SEEING IT (AS IS THE INSPIRATION AND THE PASSION TO MAKE THE WORK OF ART).

THESE FIVE RECENT PAINTINGS ARE THE CULMINATION OF TEN YEARS OF EXPLORATION INTO SEEING THE WORLD FROM THE SKY (CALLED PARALLAX VISION) AND INCORPORATING ELEMENTS FROM THE PROCESS OF CREATING THESE WORKS OF ART (THE COLORS AND TEXTURES OF PAINTING ITSELF AND SOME OF THE ELEMENTS OF ORDINARY LIFE- LIKE STICKS THAT HAVE BEEN WHITTLED WHILE RECOUPERATING FROM MINOR SURGERY).”'

 “May the beauty we love be what we do!” Rumi, 13th c. Mystic Poet

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