The Art Of Dylan

The Halcyon Gallery exhibit features paintings based on sketches Dylan made while touring from 1989 to 1992.

And the titles somewhat reflect life on the road, with one painting named “Motel Pool” while another is called “Vista From A Balcony.” Other titles include “Sunday Afternoon, “Dad’s Restaurant” and “Staircase.”

Scheduled to run Feb. 13 through April 10, the exhibit is described as a “unique opportunity to see the first original masterpieces of a creative legend.”

The gallery released material promoting the exhibit today, including a few words from the Bard of Minnesota describing his art.

“I just draw what’s interesting to me, and then I paint it. Rows of houses, orchard acres, lines of tree trunks, could be anything,” Dylan wrote. “I can take a bowl of fruit and turn it into a life and death drama. Women are power figures, so I depict them that way. I can find people to paint in mobile home communities. I could paint bourgeois people too.

“I’m not trying to make social comment or fulfill somebody’s vision and I can find subject matter anywhere. I guess in some way that comes out of the folk world that I came up in.”

Hmm… Mobile home communities? In other words, if you see a somewhat disheveled looking gentleman wandering your local trailer park carrying a sketch pad, all the while grumbling about light and shadow, it may not necessarily be a new neighbor.

Click here for the Halcyon Gallery Web site.