George Chacona "In Heat" Cibachrome Print #3 of 3 Start Price USD 499.99 Current Price USD 499.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 1,500.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, November 14, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location SEATTLE, WA See more about 'George Chacona "In Heat" Cibachrome Print #3 of 3 ' Description You are bidding on a beautiful cibachrome photograph by Seattle artist George Chacona. It is titled "In Heat" and was part of the "Great Film Directors" exhibition at the Bank of America gallery in 2000. The unmounted size is 32.5" x 48".  It was matted and framed by Artech Denman, Seattle's finest framing gallery. The size now, with frame and matting is approximately 59.5" x 44.5". I paid $2,250.00 for this unframed and unmounted. The framing and mounting cost almost $1,000.00; black lacquer and plexiglass took months to create. Included is all the orginal paperwork from the gallery, including original receipt, a color slide, a couple of news articles about the exhibition (some info included here), and a full artist resume'.  There will be NO SHIPPING for this item. If you purchase it YOU must arrange for pick up at my home in Seattle. PAYMENT ACCEPTED ONLY THROUGH PAYPAL WITHIN 7 DAYS OF CLOSE OF AUCTION AND PRIOR TO PICK UP. If you have any questions please let me know and I will do my best to answer them for you. Thank you for looking! The following is an excerpt from Seattle Times art critic Robin Updike from an article entitled "Crimes of Passion: George Chacona's works portray the vulnerable souls beneath tough-girl, femme-fatale exteriors."  02-28-99 -- George Chacona is a romantic with a taste for high drama. He likes strong-willed heroines -- even if they are bad girls -- and he believes that beneath the painted lips and lacquered eyelids of every femme fatale lies the vulnerable, if bruised, soul of a Polly Pureheart. Chacona is a Seattle artist whose subject has long been the mysteries of the human heart. In the past, his work, which often incorporates photgraphic images transferred onto metals, marble, and other mixed-media, has included dark explorations of Nazis, Catholicism, the execution of Lee Harvey Oswald and the doomed residents of Pompeii. In his current engaging show at the Esther Claypool Gallery, the passionate heart is once again his theme. But this time he's focused on Hester Prynne, the adulteress from the literary masterpiece "The Scarlet Letter." Chacona's particular vision of Prynne is the one played by the actress Lillian Gish in the 1926 silent film, and she is an especially heartbreaking home wrecker -- tiny and delicate-featured, her rosebud mouth twisted into a quivering valentine. Chacona took stills from the movie, then silkscreened Gish's image onto etched marble, which he also augmented with pigments and oil paints. The result is a group of dramatic images of Gish in her disheveled Puritan outfit. She pulls distractedly at her girlish tresses while staring disconsolately into space. She kneels on the forest floor in the embrace of her lover, her white apron and bonnet giving her the look of a tarnished angel. Since the images are on slabs of marble, it is easy to imagine these artworks as tombstones, the kind of markers that might commemorate an actress of the silent-film era, or a fallen woman who's been wronged by love. Some visitors will undoubtedly find the Gish-inspired artworks a little too precocious, a little too brittle, a little too stagy, though the old-fashioned staginess is part of their charm. For more hard-boiled types, peek in the back of the gallery will be more satisfying. In the back room, Chacona is still exploring the theme of illicit love and passion, and the price that women pay to defy conventions and follow their hearts. But in this group of works, which are mounted chromogenic prints, Chacona's women are straight out of film noir. Oddly, it's Gish again with a few images of Hedy Lamarr thrown in, but the actual faces aren't important. The artworks have lurid names, like "Restless" and "In Heat," and they have lurid poits of view. Most are close-ups of women's faces half hidden in shadows, faces full of desire and frequently tinged with fear. They have a dark glamour about them. But they're also sexy and oozing with campy, pulp-fiction appeal. If Chacona's marbles of Gish leave you cold, his midnight-blue prints of noir vixens amy not. George Chacona (Partial Bio): Born: Erie, PA Education: San Jose State College -- San Jose, CA Solo Exhibitions: 1999: Wish You Were Here, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle WA 1998: On This Side of Paradise, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1997: The Greatest Sin, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA; Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1995: Solitaire, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1994: Out of Touch, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA; Shadow Caste: A Retrospective, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA 1993: Detained, The Art Gym at Marylhurst, Portland OR; Detained, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1992: Who Came First, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA; Not For Sale, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1991: Starcrossed, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1990: Like a Ghost, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Event Horizon, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA; Something in the Wind, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 1989: After Seven Lustres, William Traver Gallery, Seattle WA 1988: Eclipse of Reason, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA 1987: Out of the Blue (The Vain Hope), Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle WA 1986: An Air of Lush Decay, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle WA; The Harmonic Tremor (The Prelude), Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle WA 1985: Hidden Danger, Pitt International, Vancouver, B.C. 1984: A Narrow Escape, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle WA 1983: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, Donnally-Hayes Gallery, Seattle WA; The Loose End, 911 and/or, Seattle WA 1982: This End Up, Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle WA 1981: Remains to be Seen: Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle WA 1980: Portrait of a Patsy, Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle WA 1979: Liars in State, Rosco Louie Gallery, Seattle WA Place a Bid!