Great Barrington — “True Dreams,” new paintings and a new performance piece by artist, raconteur and poet Douglass Truth opens today at the Lauren Clark Fine Art Gallery, 682 Main St., with a reception for the artist from 4 to 7 p.m. The show runs through November 3.
As part of the exhibition Truth will perform his one-man show “True Dreams”on October 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Here is Truth discussing his work:
“My paintings are of a world, a world that I dream up when I have a brush in my hand. I must insist that in some sense those worlds — the worlds in the paintings — are as real as the one in which you seem to be reading these works,” Truth explains. “In fact, these seemingly different worlds may be just different stops on the spectrum of reality, none more real than any other. I seem to be somewhere, of that I can be completely sure.”
Truth adds, by way of interpreting his artistic process: “Consider the premise: If Scheherazade were a frog trying to cross a river and there was a guy who makes friends with an ant that has a bent for philosophy who then told a story — the art, that is — about a frozen Halibut, but it might have all been a dream that some random dude has, but you’ll never convince the ant, or the scorpion, for that matter, that it wasn’t all completely real. If an animal speaks, that means it’s a True Dream.”
On Sunday, October 27, Truth will conduct a painting demonstration — a kind of performance in itself — from 1 to 3 p.m, during which he will share his painting techniques. The event is free and open to the public.
For tickets to the performance and information, contact lauren@laurenclarkfineart.com or call 413-528-0432.
