Mike Glier
Krakow Witkin Gallery
10 Newbury Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Telephone: 617 – 262 – 4490 Fax: 617 – 262 – 8971 e-mail:
March 20 > April 24, 2021
In the Garden, before putting pencil to paper, Glier closed his eyes, took an inventory of his senses and registered the fullness of the place, from sound (traffic, human conversations, songs among the birds) to touch (the bench, the sun, the dew) to smell (daffodils and Dunkin' Donuts).
"The language of music and art overlap, so it's not too difficult to translate sound into image. As a bird call rises and falls in pitch, so does my hand. As the volume increases, so does the size of the mark. Round sounds are drawn as ample loops with a soft hand, and sharp, raspy sounds are made with pointed and short marks drawn with clenched fingers. And the concept of rhythm brings these forms together into a unified visual flow." (Mike Glier)
A year after its originally scheduled timing, "Mike Glier: Bird Songs of the Boston Public Garden" is on view March 18 – April 21, 2021. Krakow Witkin Gallery is proud to present paintings and drawings that developed from that week of May 2019, that not only present sound and sight together, but also time and interconnectedness, themes much important at this moment, and always.
"When I draw outside, I feel like the place is giving me little gifts. It gives me shapes and colors and sounds as prompts and with appreciation, I return the gift in the form of a drawing. I am reluctant to describe this exchange as if it were a relationship with another sentient being, since it suggests I've gone a little nutty, and strayed from rationality to favor magic! But there is something here worth considering and it's not necessarily at odds with rational thinking that drives science. Imagining the human relationship with nature as one of reciprocity, or more simply, thinking of it as a culture of gift exchange, may be the turn of mind necessary to counter the extremes of rationality that have provided argument for taking too much and depleting the natural world to the point of crisis." (Mike Glier)
"The language of music and art overlap, so it's not too difficult to translate sound into image. As a bird call rises and falls in pitch, so does my hand. As the volume increases, so does the size of the mark. Round sounds are drawn as ample loops with a soft hand, and sharp, raspy sounds are made with pointed and short marks drawn with clenched fingers. And the concept of rhythm brings these forms together into a unified visual flow." (Mike Glier)
A year after its originally scheduled timing, "Mike Glier: Bird Songs of the Boston Public Garden" is on view March 18 – April 21, 2021. Krakow Witkin Gallery is proud to present paintings and drawings that developed from that week of May 2019, that not only present sound and sight together, but also time and interconnectedness, themes much important at this moment, and always.
"When I draw outside, I feel like the place is giving me little gifts. It gives me shapes and colors and sounds as prompts and with appreciation, I return the gift in the form of a drawing. I am reluctant to describe this exchange as if it were a relationship with another sentient being, since it suggests I've gone a little nutty, and strayed from rationality to favor magic! But there is something here worth considering and it's not necessarily at odds with rational thinking that drives science. Imagining the human relationship with nature as one of reciprocity, or more simply, thinking of it as a culture of gift exchange, may be the turn of mind necessary to counter the extremes of rationality that have provided argument for taking too much and depleting the natural world to the point of crisis." (Mike Glier)
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