STILL
FALLS
Diptychs and single canvases, Acrylic
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Artist's Statement
Influenced
by my study of light and shadow in my black and white photography,
I was compelled to explore the use of strong color in these
abstract diptychs. In this series, Still Falls, the juxtaposition
of form and free form, light and shadow defines the freefall
of color.
Though
I have painted for as long as I can remember, my formal training
is in photography. I enter into the process of painting in
a similar manner as I do my journalistic photography. When
does the photographer know when to click the shutter when
watching the world through the lens of a camera? Henri Cartier-Bresson
best describes this as the decisive moment. In 1/60th of a
second, the photographer freezes life as it passes by, and
captures a stillness, a memorable image, that, to the photographer,
best represents the essence of the scene, of life, in that
moment.
So
it is with my abstract exploration. Many people ask how I
know when I am finished with each painting. Just as I watch
the world through my camera, I witness the paint and the colors
pouring onto the canvas. I move with what the colors, the
shadows, the space reveals to me, and in an instant, I snap
the shutter so to speak. I capture the essence of what the
painting has been revealing to me through the many layers,
and I know the painting is complete. I see the painting as
a split second of an entire process that does not necessarily
end when I put down the pallette knife.
Each
painting is a world unto itself that I enter into, explore
and exit....These colorful images are much like a photograph
taken in a rain shower...though we might stop the shower for
1/60th of a second, we know the rain still falls.
Biography
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