Timothy Gaewsky: Castles in the air​

February 2 - March 2, 2018

Opening Reception: Feb. 2, 6 - 9 pm
Artist Talk: Feb. 25, 3:00 pm
​Closing Reception: March 2, 6 - 9 pm

Art on Madison is pleased to present Castles in the Air, a solo exhibition by Cleveland based painter, Timothy Gaewsky. Castles in the Air explores Gaewsky’s personal nostalgia for the retro 8-bit video games that he played growing up in the 1980’s and early ’90’s. Gaewsky’s colorful and whimsical paintings appropriate and manipulate design elements and visual cues from some of his favorite games. Gaewsky is interested in ways his new arraignments of modified game references might spark a sense of nostalgia, i.e. a sentimental yet deceptive or false memory associated with games from that era. Viewers may also appreciate other recurring visual motifs, including psychedelic inspired flowers, vibrant star bursts, multicolored light rays, and bold geometric patterns, all mashed-up and composed to lure the viewer in and share in Gaewsky’s developing narratives. Each painting, in essence, becomes a quasi-screenshot of a different level of an expansive video game he is creating for himself and the viewer.