AM Thiel ART

The Nucleus Series are the first larger (>20 inches) pieces I’ve done since college, 20+ years ago, inspired by Chuck Smith prints. The title “Nucleus” came to me as I thought about the creation of something new that happens in a nucleus, a center where a frenzy of activity happens. Working on a larger scale allows for a more physical painting process and movement of paint that is different than a smaller piece. Both large and small works have their individual gratification for me.

All canvases are gallery wrapped and painted with acrylics, 36 x 36 x 2”

All paintings are for sale at $600.

Nucleus No. 2 is available at The Local in downtown Goshen.

The Sunglow Collection is a continuation of the Nucleus Series in composition and color choices, although I chose to brighten the colors here. Again, the simplicity of the geometric shape let me focus on creating colorful combinations and mark-making for texture and depth. I started these pieces in January which to me is the beginning of many, many long, grey days in the Midwest.

8 x 8” gallery-wrapped canvas

Private Collection // Chicago, IL

I started this series as a continuation of the Nucleus paintings, on an obviously smaller scale, to explore loosening the circular shapes. About halfway though, I glanced over and noticed that several of them reminded me of an abstract cervix. This revelation immediately threw me back to the sensation of learning how to visualize a cervix in medical school. It was difficult, not just for the invasiveness of the speculum in a person’s vagina, but a cervix is rarely front and center, ready to seen. However, this was also a magical experience, peering into the body and realizing this is where a human enters the world.

February 2020

Each canvas is 4 x 4 x 1.5”

Acrylic & Graphite

$200 (incl shipping or local delivery)

AM Thiel

Peri-jaune

2019

Mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas

10 x 8 x 1.5 in

Unframed

$125

Completed concurrently with Peri-jaune, Myotonia is also an exercise in more sophisticated color choices and mixing. I started both pieces with the intention of more restrained mark making, and this one has stayed with that intention as compared to Peri-jaune. However, I do find lines in my art work to be mere suggestions of where color is or isn’t supposed to wander.

My curiosity about the immune system and liver function form the understory of Immune and Elimination, Equilibrium, Escape. These themes also have parallels with the functioning of ourselves in the world; how we take in information, process it, and then discharge it (or not). Much of our bodily functions are invisible to ourselves and others, just as I’ve covered up much of the underworkings of these pieces.

Media for these pieces includes acrylic and gouache paints, copious graphite, collage, marker, pencil, ball point pen, oil pastel, and spirograph.

These mixed media works on canvas explore the combination of different types of mark making and materials to create not just visual interest, but layers to draw your eye in to the space and your imagination.

The printed pages in Laval and Call Me are from a phone book. This use is an obvious reference to communication. I see art as a basic means of communicating through visual representation. What is so gratifying to me about communication through art is the viewer’s unique interpretation of my message.