Art’s Cafe

The Village

September 4 – October 12

Artist reception, September 26th, 6:30 – 8PM

Regarding The Village

The Village is a collection of works primarily created over the span of one month, although there are a few that precede the timeline. The idea was to be in such a chaotic time crunch, and it was, that I didn’t have the ability to overthink, to consider, and could simply let the brush strokes happen. I learned a lot in this short time, mainly about how much I love continuously working on projects.

Each image in the exhibition has a story or poem connected to it, that melds a personal reality with bits and pieces of what I perceive to be imagination.

The timeline was so tight that I guarantee there is still varnish drying on the artwork as you see it. I was finishing stories and formatting this website at almost 9 AM, the day of the opening.

This is very much stream-of-consciousness art and I do hope you find some enjoyment in it.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see The Village and finding enough interest to navigate to the website and read the stories.

Thank you to Art’s Cafe, Springville Center for the Arts, and specifically, Cassandra Cross, Visual Arts Director at SCA for putting up with my chaos gracefully.

Thank you to my family, who put up with me taking over sections of the house, leaving supplies and coffee cups everywhere, and generally, me being me.

I love our village here in Springville and I’m thankful we all have this moment in time together.

Make it a great day.

Eric Tuberdyke

Springville, New York

Artist bio:

Eric Tuberdyke is an artist, musician, and writer, living in Springville, New York. Coming of age in the Buffalo punk rock era of the late 1980s directed him down paths that would lead to traveling the world as a musician, utilizing songwriting, poetry, painting, photography, and other modalities to express one individual’s perspective of society, life, and death.

Artist statement:

I’ve always let the Universe direct my life because I could never know what anything truly is or means, and I attempt to take that concept down artistic paths. I know no song before it’s written, understand nothing about the individual until I delve into their eyes, and have begrudgingly learned to paint or create without consequence. If I wanted to express anything with my artistic endeavors, it would likely be the emotion that comes with existing in a twilight field between life and death, indelible grief in love with great joy in one chaotic, cosmic consciousness that is our lives.

I would also love for anyone to take away the notion that you can and should create art for the sake of creation. Regardless of what you might believe about yourself or what others may tell you, it requires no special talents, rhymes, or reasons..only interest and drive. If you hear differently, someone is selling something. Your art will build itself and you will be as much a spectator as the rest. Your art will create you. 

To fuel the passion, always remember…it’s later than you think.

Much love to you all.