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Describe the nature of your work, its content
and/or meaning including how it has evolved over time and what technical,
cultural or other details will aid in its understanding.
In the early 1980’s the mark became a significant
aspect of my process. As content, the mark represents an affirmation of being, an
awakening to wonder and a record of consciousness. It is a persistent concept through the various investigations
in my practice.
Following a residency with Miriam Shapiro
in 1983, I began a brief investigation of identity with the figure as a
subject. Vigorous charcoal marks on large sheets of paper surround an anonymous
female figure grappling with an inherited hierarchy. The drawings visualized my claim to identity as an artist.(1-3)
In
1990 the endangered Florida Everglades renewed my interest in landscape as
content. The mark articulated the infinite and lively expanse of the Everglades
while a black pool and red sky suggests finitude. (4)
In
2000 I moved from landscape to explore a space defined only by shallow fields
of color interacting with a screen of marks. Emptiness, ambiguity and spatial conjecture
characterized these gestational works. (5-7)
By
2007 I was making large-scale paintings crowded with colors that competed for
attention. (8-9) The scale and congested compositions became overwhelming so I
retreated to making small works. The smaller works from 2009- enabled me to
define and understand the nature of the space I was seeking. (10-13)
The
new paintings trace the relational aspects of abstraction both across the
surface and within a deeper space. Each painting contains a set of relationship
that interact on a ground that advances or retreats in relation to the brush
marks. I work to subvert expectations in a process that allows for a fluctuating
reading of what I call an abstract narrative. The relational aspects function
as a coming into being. (14-20)
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