Small Paintings

For the last three years, I’ve spent a lot of time organizing my thought, doing a lot of writing, and putting together projects. This website is my biggest project thus far.

The paintings I created during this period are a reflection of all of this effort. It’s like they are about something large, deep, and all encompassing. You have to spend a lot of time with them in order to understand this, as they simply have so much to say. I’m quite sure that those paintings will never shut up.

But it’s hard to tell people, people who don’t know me otherwise, that these paintings are about all this stuff, and that you have to take a lot of time with them in order to appreciate this.

Even if it is true, how does one talk about something so big, in short conversation, and not come off looking arrogant and egotistical? It’s so easy to be misunderstood.

So I thought to create small, fast paintings, to serve as introductory conversation: a title and a glimpse. I want to do lots of them, maybe hundreds of them, and spread them out all over the place, in any number of galleries.

I see them as being warm and friendly greetings. “Hello. I’m Tim Folzenlogen.” If the client wants to go deeper, the website will always be there.

I want the galleries to be representative of all different kinds of communities. Size and status does not matter. All I’m looking for is interest, honesty, and sincerity.

I want to talk to everybody.

Tim Folzenlogen
February 24, 2004

All of the paintings are oil on 150 lb hp paper (three coats of gesso). The paper
measures 8” x 10”, the images 4” x 6”. All of the paintings are signed and dated
on the front – numbered, titled, signed and dated on the back.

Each gallery will initially receive a series of ten.

Kerygma Gallery 1 – 10
38 Oak Street, Ridgewood, New Jersey
201-444-5510

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