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Born in 1956 in Norman, Oklahoma, USA Summer, 1980. Full scholarship. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1982, MFA, Queens College, CUNY 1977-1980, New York Studio School, NY 1977, BA Art History, Swarthmore College |
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| "Provoked to visual explosions by poems and stories, my current paintings contain the spirit of the storyteller in the guise of the abstract adventurer. Not illustrations or literal translations, they are instead transformations from poetry to mysterious landscapes of a dream world inhabited by figure, animal and birdiike images. These paintings suggest that the boundaries between underworld and waking life are traversable, that terror coexists with joy, and that loss yields to renewal. In them, the very sky descends to occupy the ground as fog, and then rises back to its rightful place; tunnels simultaneously lead downward to a dark center, and offer an opening and escape to the bright air above. Created with a palette knife, the texture ranges from impasto to translucent glaze, from areas scratched out to lines fluidly drawn in.
Before making these abstract paintings, I spent 15 years painting directly from observation. In these paintings, the motif was a vehicle for discovering painterly forms, movements and colors, which themselves were metaphors for the combined experience of perception, memory, mood and thought. These canvases, with their energetic brushstrokes of sensuous color, their layered paint weaving in and out of interlocking, even conflicting forms, reveal a watery, mysterious, musical, and dreamlike world. In many ways, these landscapes relate directly to my later abstract work. Landscape and poetry are in my bones and blood. When I painted from landscapes, the poetry seeped though, and now when I paint from poems, the landscape remains as my anchor."
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