Victor Coffield
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Vic Coffield
After retiring from being a letter carrier for
some twenty years and raising four daughters I
took up an old interest in painting and soon added
sculpture. I have since “studied” at Laney College
in Oakland for a number of years.
I love dance and am attracted to the truths
reveled in body language. I grew up on Disney, I’m
enchanted by Daumier and love the physical
comedy of dramatic clowns. I work to get that
sense of rhythm in my painting. I enjoy playing
with shifting shades of color within a composition.
I have of late been working with much thicker
layers of paint and texture.
I began work with sculpture in order to become
more familiar with human anatomy. It didn’t take
long before I was in love with the pure process of
molding earth. I’m fascinated with the way clay
suggests, on its own, forms that are wonderfully
suited for the body language that my figures
desire.
All of us are on some kind of journey. It would be
nice if we made something of ourselves along the
way. Since I worked most of my life I have a
strong desire to use my painting and sculpture to
assail some of the more shameful political and
social issues that corrupt our culture. So much of
my work, especially the sculpture, is narrative.
Whether I set out to do a social criticism piece or
a whimsical abstraction my work usually winds up
with some comic seriousness to it. I like
confronting what I see as the deeply troubling
human condition with a sense of humor, and thus
hope.
After retiring from being a letter carrier for
some twenty years and raising four daughters I
took up an old interest in painting and soon added
sculpture. I have since “studied” at Laney College
in Oakland for a number of years.
I love dance and am attracted to the truths
reveled in body language. I grew up on Disney, I’m
enchanted by Daumier and love the physical
comedy of dramatic clowns. I work to get that
sense of rhythm in my painting. I enjoy playing
with shifting shades of color within a composition.
I have of late been working with much thicker
layers of paint and texture.
I began work with sculpture in order to become
more familiar with human anatomy. It didn’t take
long before I was in love with the pure process of
molding earth. I’m fascinated with the way clay
suggests, on its own, forms that are wonderfully
suited for the body language that my figures
desire.
All of us are on some kind of journey. It would be
nice if we made something of ourselves along the
way. Since I worked most of my life I have a
strong desire to use my painting and sculpture to
assail some of the more shameful political and
social issues that corrupt our culture. So much of
my work, especially the sculpture, is narrative.
Whether I set out to do a social criticism piece or
a whimsical abstraction my work usually winds up
with some comic seriousness to it. I like
confronting what I see as the deeply troubling
human condition with a sense of humor, and thus
hope.
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