CURTIS SPEER | NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND

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Curtis Speer is an accomplished artist and entrepreneur known for his distinctive photography and significant contributions to the art communities in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island. His work emphasizes the artist's hand in creating images that transport viewers, breathing life into his subjects.

Artistic Career and Style: Speer's photography is characterized by a tactile experience, inviting viewers to engage intimately with his art. His prints, crafted with meticulous attention to detail, blur the lines between photography and painting, encouraging contemplation and introspection.

These wild mushrooms embody delirium as nature's fever dream-where beauty blurs with decay, and life multiplies in surreal persistence.

Burgeon, 19 x 25 x 2 in.photographic print, pigment on cotton, framed in oiled walnut $1800

Curtis Speers’ still life photograph Burgeon aligns seamlessly with the psychedelic and psychological themes of D E L I R I U M. His intimate and stunningly lit depiction of wild foraged mushrooms evokes the mysticism of nature—where the act of foraging becomes a ritual and conjures cold and dark forest floors. The work bridges the organic and with the occult in the company of the rest of the exhibition. To us Curtis’ piece nodded to ancient traditions of the alchemy of homegrown sustenance, witchcraft and the quiet moments when we wander in the woods. In its classy, otherworldly detail, Burgeon invites viewers to see the natural world as a mirror of the mind’s own fertile, hallucinatory terrain, if you interpret the mushrooms as symbol. With a very versatile view, taken out of the other artwork in DELIRIUM, you have a stunning Flemish-looking still life that would be the focal point in any dining room or kitchen.