Studio Visit with Charles Arnoldi, August 2020

A day at Charles Arnoldi's studio with the artist working on a recent exploration with some new materials relative to his practice: Styrofoam and plaster. These sculptures and wall pieces are made simultaneously alongside paintings and are meant to be a formal extension of space that exists within a given picture plane.
They also represent an intuitive or natural progression of the Arnoldi's body of work called "Machu Picchu."
Charles Arnoldi (American, b. 1946) has been blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation throughout his long and celebrated career. Arnoldi started showing his work consisting of compositions crafted from sticks he would gather from orchards and woods. Whether affixed to the canvas in thick clusters or structured into geometric, openwork wall hangings and sculptures, the sticks both resemble and inform the vigorously painted lines that appear in his later paintings. In his more traditional, acrylic-on-canvas paintings, Arnoldi translates nature and architecture into abstract compositions that hint at their source imagery. The history of his work reads, visually, like a long and ongoing dialogue between Arnoldi and color, shape, and form. No matter the medium - whether oils, acrylics, canvas, charcoal, metal, paper, wood, or the burnt sticks from his earliest successful works - Arnoldi sees himself primarily as a maker of objects.
Charles Arnoldi has been making art for over 50 years, first achieving major acclaim in the 1970s. His work resides in numerous collections and museums throughout the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.

[@johnblaine1479]

I would have liked to see the individual sculptures but was taken on a twisting swirling wandering almost random journey through the warehouse by the camera carried by someone who clearly doesn’t like sculpture enough to stop even for a few seconds.

[@MURZBO]

👍

[@jhb61249]

Not a completely original idea, but perhaps a more aggressive and abundant output than past achievers. As he says, looks pretty good. Now looking forward to finished looks and presentation.
Charlie is fortunate to have such a studio in such a nice area.
Always ready to see the next output from Mr. Arnoldi.

[@KpxUrz5745]

Must agree with that last comment. It is exceptionally rare for any artist to have access to such a nice large studio space.

[@brianbuday8639]

He is very good. No one is completely original. All artists are influenced either consciously or otherwise by what they are exposed to and experience in my opinion.
Some manage to manifest this in wonderful ways. Notably in his paintings.
Cheers,
👍😎🇨🇦

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@brianbuday8639 Oh, believe me, I wasn't saying ANYTHING about his talents (or lack thereof). My comment was entirely restricted to the size of his nice studio. I am an extremely hard ("rarefied"?) critic of artists and their work. Velasquez was a great painter, and I am commensurately hard in judging artists as we go lesser and lesser from there, in talents.

[@sharadvirulkar7001]

🐎👌🦘🐥🦆

[@justintremblay6007]

I really wish he could take his Creational process to a more noble and ecofriendy material :S

[@BintonSukses]

Nice👍

[@ella-vy7mk]

fkn fun

[@artscreate7033]

👍🏾👌🤗

[@pokahuntas6630]

🐫🦃🌺

[@___.___.___.___.___.___.___]

Polystyrene is such a disgusting material

[@pokahuntas6630]

🦋🔇🐂

[@bernardpower2930]

You cant be serious he's having a laugh at us ,where's the art.

[@barry_crisp]

You might want to use less spaces my boy.

[@bernardpower2930]

Wowisthatallyouhavetosay lol

[@patrickmcdaniel8123]

Another fake artist with money. Nice.

[@big_fat_hen]

Looks like cardboard may be in his future.