Fleeing The Storm

Every summer we bring in an artist for a couple weeks to check out Denver and have a show. This year we reached across the globe to Brazil and invited the talented yet elusive Titi Freak for a visit. For the past 3 or 4 years Titi (pronounced Chi-Chi) has been working diligently on his craft, including 2 years apprenticing in Japan. While in Japan, Titi developed and refined an abstract technique that moved him away from his bold illustrative style towards a more organic and gestural approach. “In A Dream” features all new work from Titi filled with Japanese influence both visually and artistically. Vibrant colors and organic textures converge into portraits laced with a multitude of colors and layers. A new series of “nature” portraits based on foliage and natural abstract shapes applies the same techniques within a more confined space. The centerpiece of this exhibit is a large 10 panel wood piece (Fleeing The Storm) featuring a Japanese Koi suspended in time on a white background. The Koi can be found throughout Japanese art history and is considered by Japanese to be a symbol of long life, luck and fortune. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.