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Do
Answer to a brain clogged with questions: Do. Finishing a painting begun months ago…Sketching as if my hand is on a Ouija Board…Always the rummaging with hands and eyes. Then. Susceptible to the past. I rummage, choose, place, and paste:
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At the Ready
Sometimes the beginning is so clear. The signpost reads start here. Then I’m off. Other times the first move is laden with possibilities and no one direction boldly presents itself. Exploring begins. Teasing out and tugging at ideas by sketching, mapping, writing, and, my favorite, rummaging. Sifting through boxes of colored paper. Zeroing in on the…
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Why? ?
Sunday afternoon. Thinking about the whys. Why do I continue to make art when… Now wait a minute! Why explain? Why not just state: I make art. It’s my poetry, my music, my wonderment, my amazement, my happiness, my tears, my wishes, my connection to you/to life/to the wild/to the mystery. Hoping the art or…
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YOG + Complementary Color + Bison + Blue
While waiting for paint to dry on two other works, I decide to do a small cut and paste. After choosing some yellow, orange, and green pieces, I begin playing around with adding blues. Sizing the blues’ effects on the YOG triad. My reaction to the blues soon switches from noting color interactions to seeing the…
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Plus Grey
The triad of yellow, orange and green holds fast. I am persistent in using this trio to grasp in paint what it means to take a step, to walk in space, through time, over many times. How can I use these colors to convey my introspections? Bringing to life the essence of a woman walking…
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4 x 6
It’s for sale! Entered the above 4 x 6 in A.I.R. Gallery’s annual benefit postcard show in Dumbo, Brooklyn, from July 1 through July 26 (opening reception is July 9). All postcards will be $45. A.I.R. Gallery was the first women’s cooperative gallery in the country, founded in 1972. All the proceeds will go…
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Before the Hanging
“I really like them! These are really nice! Really really nice! Awesome!! The best! A knockout!” I have to write an artist statement. More fitting to use bigger words and less exclamation marks. After much groaning, I wrote and revised a few times the following: A marble Greek relief of a woman walking, dated 1st century…
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Stripes
It’s not like I’m thinking about op art, but I am attempting to create the illusion of movement across the picture plane. The connection could be made, but it would not be key to my motivation. Using color pencil I outlined a wide horizontal band on a long sheet of paper. I then…
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Looking Back
I remember having no idea what I was going to draw, til I drew a line, and then another. An outline of a torso! It all came together very quickly after that and became more intentional. A figure of clouds and water with the sun feeding and anchoring it to a dark universe. The white…
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It’s a Wonder!
The move, from large oil paintings filled with interconnected abstract shapes and marks whose emotive qualities created a snapshot of scenarios simultaneously projected, to work that may be described as minimal, reductive, or simpler did not physically happen as soon as the desire was noted. I like the idea of saying a lot with a…
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