December 18, 2003
Laguna artist Wolfgang Bloch exhibits at Urban Earth
"Bloch's emotional response to material and texture is carefully focused on elements of balance, scale and depth, as he proceeds intuitively to form the emerging image".
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Laguna artist Wolfgang Bloch exhibits at Urban Earth
By Lydia Ringwald
From the beaches of Latin America to the beaches of Laguna, Wolfgang Bloch has surfed his way into the art world. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Gotcha Sportswear hired Bloch as designer and soon promoted him to art director, where he worked with noted designers John Van Hammersfeld and David Carson. While achieving notable awards in adverting design and working as freelance artist for notable Surf industry companies, Bloch continued to create fine art works in his Laguna Canyon studio.
Two recent successful exhibitions of his oil and mixed media works at Laguna's Surf Gallery, recognition in the Moonshine Festival head at Seven Degrees and the Art Pack Exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum, have encouraged the artist to consider making a transition from his lucrative career as a designer and art director to a career devoted to the fine arts.
This month Bloch exhibits his unique series of abstracted land and seascapes at the Urban-Earth Gallery in Corona Del Mar. Gallery director, Rico Garcia, who believes in Bloch's future potential, has devoted rooms of his gallery space to Bloch's transcendent, meditative works.
Bloch composes with material that has texture and surface in an intuitive, experimental process. An application of oil on abandoned piece of wood may elicit the mysteries inherent in the material itself. The grain and random defects on the wood reveal a history of secrets and signals, omens and indications.Bloch's emotional response to material and texture is carefully focused elements of balance, scale and depth, as he proceeds intuitively to form the emerging image.
Laguna artist Wolfgang Bloch is the fourth artist in a notable series of exhibitions that have included to date such recognized artists at George Yepes and Courtney Reid.
