RALPH STANTON - THERE'S A CRACK IN EVERYTHING (L.COHEN)
“What’s happening?”
Good question. What is happening in the world now? Unprecedented, unstoppable global events: a dreadful, ongoing pandemic; drastic environmental and climate shocks; a major shift in our freedoms and in global power. Personal tragedies unfolding worldwide at enormous scale.
What are we to make of it all? I am intrigued by the feeling behind Leonard Cohen’s Anthem ‘Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering; There’s a crack, a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in.’
Is there something to be learnt here – at a level beyond the everyday? In any case, that’s what this, my imperfect offering, is about: a non-didactic attempt to imply the possibility of hope (or light) concealed behind the enormity of what appears before us, collectively or individually.
Abstract art has been around for over a century. It appeals - like music – to our non-rational mind. My work evokes mood through colour, texture and overall effect. I rely on intuition, seeking feelings of space and beauty which arrive through process: layering, glazing, rubbing back, and overpainting.
The work tends to suggest landscape, seascape or skyscape rather than tangible imagery, reflecting its expressive nature, “emotional residue” or tonal atmosphere. Actually it is an “inner landscape” that is reflected, and sometimes an “inner light.”
- Ralph Stanton
ONLINE LAUNCH
September 30th at 6pm
D/O.53 There’s a Crack in Everything (L.Cohen) will be a virtual exhibition hosted right here on disordergallery.com. Grab a glass of wine and join us at 6pm on Thursday September 30th and be the first to see Ralph’s works in stunning detail and tour a virtual gallery of the exhibition.
Listen to Ralph Stanton discuss his inspiration for There’s a Crack in Everything (L.Cohen) and watch how is process comes together.
D/O.53 There’s a Crack in Everything (L.Cohen)
will be online and available for view and purchase from
September 30th through October 16th