Liminal Suspension
In this body of work I wanted to examine our relationships with objects. I invited six friends to collaborate with me. I asked each person to choose objects that may relay some insight into who they are by the objects they chose.
Whether an object is from the sacred or the profane we have an integral relationship to it. Whether it is functional or decorative it becomes a part of our everyday environment and it interacts with us on many levels.
In working with my collaborators on the project I became more involved in reinterpreting the objects meaning through my knowledge of the individual and thus more inclined to interject a bit of my relationship to the person in the painting.
The other six paintings are a personal exploration of my relationship to objects, objects that not only appear in the physical but the secular. Objects that have carried a place in my life since childhood.
In this body of work I wanted to examine our relationships with objects. I invited six friends to collaborate with me. I asked each person to choose objects that may relay some insight into who they are by the objects they chose.
Whether an object is from the sacred or the profane we have an integral relationship to it. Whether it is functional or decorative it becomes a part of our everyday environment and it interacts with us on many levels.
In working with my collaborators on the project I became more involved in reinterpreting the objects meaning through my knowledge of the individual and thus more inclined to interject a bit of my relationship to the person in the painting.
The other six paintings are a personal exploration of my relationship to objects, objects that not only appear in the physical but the secular. Objects that have carried a place in my life since childhood.
I am an interdisciplinary artist. I am a painter but I also
work with books, assemblage and prose. I live in Portland, Oregon with my
husband and two cats. My studio is a small room, much too small, located behind the
living room. I try to contain my work to this space but it has a way of
spilling out and occupying little piles here and there.
I hold a Masters of Fine Art degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont and I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
I am a member of Gallery 114, 1100 N.W. Glisan, Portland, Oregon. www.gallery114.org
ARTIST STATEMENT
To explore the passage of time as an illusion and to recreate a new world-view focusing on an ever-shifting paradigm is the basis of creation and the underlying story of my art practice.
My art practice is bound by a deep desire to recreate inner knowledge, to make meaning out of unexplainable experience, to give the audience a new way of seeing. It is through color that painting exposes the inner realms of living.
Paintings have become the doorway to an interior narration. The stories in my paintings are immediate and timeless. Drawing on personal history, symbols and quantum ideas to bring out the connections between past and present, unconscious and conscious awareness.
These images are not bound by stark realism, but touch our senses now, stirring echoes of emotions and questions left unasked, or unanswered. Through the figure I attempt to unveil the person not yet revealed, exploring the underside of our emotions.
My creativity swells in the living memories, myths, and metaphors of my inescapable and ever evolving past. Myths are a necessary means of understanding our relationships with the world and our relationships with one another. Myths are not history, but a road to comprehension.
I hold a Masters of Fine Art degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont and I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
I am a member of Gallery 114, 1100 N.W. Glisan, Portland, Oregon. www.gallery114.org
ARTIST STATEMENT
To explore the passage of time as an illusion and to recreate a new world-view focusing on an ever-shifting paradigm is the basis of creation and the underlying story of my art practice.
My art practice is bound by a deep desire to recreate inner knowledge, to make meaning out of unexplainable experience, to give the audience a new way of seeing. It is through color that painting exposes the inner realms of living.
Paintings have become the doorway to an interior narration. The stories in my paintings are immediate and timeless. Drawing on personal history, symbols and quantum ideas to bring out the connections between past and present, unconscious and conscious awareness.
These images are not bound by stark realism, but touch our senses now, stirring echoes of emotions and questions left unasked, or unanswered. Through the figure I attempt to unveil the person not yet revealed, exploring the underside of our emotions.
My creativity swells in the living memories, myths, and metaphors of my inescapable and ever evolving past. Myths are a necessary means of understanding our relationships with the world and our relationships with one another. Myths are not history, but a road to comprehension.
