"Garden of Quiet Desire" detail oil on metal baking sheet
I am happy to report that my work will be included in a show at the Crossman Gallery called "Reading Material" Feb 22-March 23...(right after the Nick Cave lecture and show). The show theme explores that the "media is part of the message". These works not only in build a pictorial space but conjure meaning from the material itself. The material can carry meanings beyond language and suggest to our conscious and subconscious mind notions of desire, memory, pain, joy etc. The works of mine are from a few years ago when I was painting on baking sheets , floor boards and leaves. In the baking sheet work, I was honoring women's work of serving a family or a community. Each pan bears a patina of use, brownies made for a funeral, a fudge pan riddled with grid lines from so many Christmas's. On the pans I painted "visual prayers" and hopes for the women who's stories I came to know by doing this series. The work was an attempt to go beyond language and make visible what is not perceptual, but felt, and understood spiritually.
"All the Little Deaths" oil on metal baking sheet
"Breath" encaustic on maple floor boards
"And This To" gouache on milkweed leaf
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