ONLI STUDIOS

Megan Thomas, of the Chicago White Sox Baseball Wives Charitable Organization , was on hand to interview various artists at the "Save Our Shores" benefit art opening gala, at the East Bank Artist Building near Cellular Field, for FOX-TV. Each section of the triptych is 40 inches wide by 30 inches high with a two inch museum profile. They are painted in quality oils on heavy museum grade gesso primed canvas.

Panel 1. Features the Daughter "See No Evil Siren" tending to a Pelican that is soiled and suffering from the spilled crude oiled waters. Modeled by Malitha. One may notice the end panels have a little symmetrical homage to Hiroshige's "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" block print thrown in.

Panel 2. Features the Two-tailed / four-armed mutated "Shiva Siren", inspired by the legendary deity Shiva, who dances to stamp out the sources of evil, to confront the violence of the Sun while washing away the Evil, or pollutants, in the waters that were restrained by the boom cables placed on the surface of the spill area. I went sailing a few times off Chicago in Lake Michigan this summer per the nice invitation of my good neighbor Dr. Craig Cunningham. This gave me a chance to experience and study the power and active nature of water, waves and currents. This helped me to reduce them into visual rhythms in this ambitious Rhythmistic triptych.

Panel 3. The "Mother Speak No Evil Siren" tending to a choking Dolphin who is struggeling to communicate and survive in the murky waters. The healing tenderness in this treatment comes by way of an ink painting-study an 11 year old Onli did of Da Vinci's "Madonna of the Rocks". This was modeled by Power who used to lead an all female band for Prince.

"Often when folks view my Rhythmistic work they instantly make a strong unconscious connection. The sudden power and inner truth of this non-verbal contact often surprises them. Then they frequently pull away in a bit of uneasiness due to the emergence of thought and emotions flowing in new ways. Future-primitif rivers form our shared collective. A few short circuit on the idea that I am the messenger and not someone else or some other designated source of their preference. Some recover to collect the work. Others move on to reflect upon the value of that exchange. Images can be provocative. I have been watching this process being played out since my early childhood as a wunderkind art maker.

Searching for a ready and open mind Rhythmism is still the art movement that bridges the 20th & 21st Centuries' diverse globalism, shifting traditions, energetic powers, cultural transitions, reconstructive families and emerging economies. Its embrace of the future-primitif in all of us. Each branch of the tree of humanity has a primary root that reaches into its future. Our mutual organic core. The human that creates, thinks and adapts. The master of the machine. Distilled and expressed by the hand of artists. From the cave to the new wave. The hand of man. The will of you. Valued by you. Reflective of you.

There is motion out there. There is a place for Rhythmism. That place is among the greats. With the powerful who amass collections of icons and trophies that reflect and protect their sense of self. Of personal power.

When in the dawn of my career I successfully "stalked" Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones, Alice Coltrane, WGN, Motown and Playboy, and more. The rewards and spoils of this helped to finance my BFA & MAAT degrees from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This practice also gave me the wonderful opportunity to touch people as a teacher / therapist while testing and crafting a wide array of Rhythmistic concepts in fine, applied or commercial art. My Rhythmistic art can be found in the collections of the Cool Globes, The Johnson Publishing Company, The Chicago Children's Museum, the DuSable Museum and a growing list of private collections. My exhibitions have inspired positive critical acclaim in published reviews in the New York Times, The New Art Examiner, the Chicago Sun Times, The Paris Metro and others. Not to mention the many artists that were influenced along the way. Hiding in plain view this art movement grows.

Let the hunt renew. Big Game is only brought down by a Big Gun.

I can no longer accept pause as a way of life. A habit. Time to leave the studio. Time to safari packing my Big One. Rhythmism lives!!!!

Point being, game-changing is the way to stay. These New Age Masterpieces should be owned by the Masterful. The emergent masters of their own lives and destinies. The masters of lives, forces, and change. The fair market exchange for my Rhythmistic fine art or intellectual properties can work.

My spirit animals are here to guide me: The Dragon becomes one with the Phoenix. The Turtle shows his wares. The Cat stalks his prey as the Dolphin surveys the way. "Boom dat!!!!!"

"Thanks for collecting some of my very best efforts. It addresses the above in you too."

2011 will be the best year yet for Onli Studios.