Ishi Glinksy brings out a fully ripened indigenous burst of beauty with a confidently dazzling display of textures and forms with his ‘Lifetimes that Broke the Earth’ opening at Chris Sharp Gallery. The appropriate grander of the scale of the works breathes even more animated strength to the experience of a positive wonder through the immersion. And it is this immersion which is appropriately variegated to bring out a successful opening and extension of beautiful ideas in the human imagination.

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With the Earth And In The Air, 2023. Acrylic ink, oil stick. Courtesy of the artist and Chris Sharp Gallery. Copyright Ishi Glinsky.

So much of the swirling of the pseudo-astral, quasi-psychedelic, yet necessarily indigenous art forms is accomplished by the healthy grandiosity of the works. With several of the final artworks measuring in sizes as wide as 12’, there is a healthy impression of starform blossoming, particularly with the uninhibited, excited launch of technicolor which patterns the mind with gratitude. This is especially sweet with the textures, such as in the work With the Earth and In the Air, 2023. The matte media provides a distinction in the spackling of light which polychromatically, though not epileptically. Are we to consider this a form of centeredness, an aim at focusing the mind’s eye onto the center of the dizzying daze which is sumptuous rather than nauseous?

Trip to Topawa, 2022. Acrylic ink, oil stick and matte medium on canvas, 120 x 72 in (304.8 x 182.88 cm). Courtesy of the artist Ishi Glinsky and Chris Sharp Gallery. Copyright Ishi Glinsky.

We have a similar centripetal lens with Mr. Glinksy’s Trip to Topawa. Here the colors become more muted in tone, the curvy lines, while remaining spastic, are more genteel in their serpentine travails in the cosmos. We have a healthy idea of psychedelic which is informed by necessity of a native, indigenous, experience or natural impression of the world, which involves of course Heaven and Earth, and all of the ideas that form these concepts in our body’s experience of them. Yes, that indigenous body’s have their own cosmic rhythm which is pulsating in this art is a superb realization.

That the pulse is pronounced yet not anxious, avoiding being spendthrift in the creative energy poured out on to the canvas, gives us a concrete demonstration of grandeur in style; of good taste when embarking on such an ambitious transcendental sojourn for us to mystically be moved by. Upward? What about inward? Towards a spiritual self-discovery.

Ishi Glinsky, Rapidly, Slowly, 2023, Acrylic ink, oil stick and matte medium on canvas, 80 x 60 in (203.2 x 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Chris Sharp Gallery. Copyright Ishi Glinsky.

Soul-seeking as a result of this magnificence is what the medicine man attempts to produce in the soul – to leave the body’s worldly anxieties behind. And instead, enjoy the show of the eternal movement of the natural universe as it pours itself into our everyday lives.
 

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