I am presenting six mixed media oil paintings at
Artworks Gallery, Winston Salem,
March 30-April 30, 2016.
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| Still Life for a Guerrilla Girl mixed media oil painting 36" x 50" |
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| Still Life with Waffle mixed media oil painting 39" x 50" |
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| Bo Times for Betti mixed media oil painting 39.25" x 50" |
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| Courtship mixed media oil painting 38" x 41" |
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| Still Life for an Italian American mixed media oil painting 37" x 49.25" |
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| Pie=Life mixed media oil painting 37.5" x 50.5"
Large Stories Artist
Statement:
These
mixed media oil paintings explore the relationship between everyday objects and
a cultural identity through personal belongings and experience. Juxtaposed is play with both
traditional and contemporary painting and mixed media composition and
technique.
With
influences as diverse as Audrey Flack and Jim Dine, new variations are crafted
from both opaque and transparent layers.
Ever
since being a young adult artist, the traditional understanding of the human
condition has fascinated the artist.
Still life conveys a story through subject matter reflective of the time
and culture we live in. Random historical information on each subject is gathered
from the Internet, and a personal memory interwoven. What starts out as vision soon becomes corroded into a
carnival of interpretation, leaving only a sense of what could have been and
the possibility of a new understanding, morphed from the irony of older
aesthetic values.
As
wavering political correctness becomes transformed through emergent and
repetitive practice, through words, objects and logos, the viewer is left with clues
to the edges of our era, location and heritage.
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