Needing to reinvigorate my work, I attended a 5-day Abstractionist residency with Judith Kruger at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The result was to release an astounding new channel of expression for me.
I paint on canvas and add mixed media elements. Then I cut, tear, wash and manipulate the canvas. It is not a painting, not a collage, and not textile, rather a fusion of all three. This gives a viewer so much to discover. View it from different angles. Look into the folds, find the shadows, encounter new details. Experience how the 2-dimensional painting morphs into a 3-dimensional piece.
"Unbuttoned" is assembled from several strips of painted canvas of varying sizes. It is embellished with strings of painted buttons. Some are hidden, others clearly in sight. They dangle free, casting their shadows on the canvas. The folds of the piece, and the yarn and threads also cast shadows, on both the wall and parts of canvas itself. They create some ambiguity, some mystery. What is inside those folds? Where do the buttons come from? What is their purpose? There are so many possibilities. I leave it to you to decide your own answers.
With manipulation, the flat canvas becomes a 3-dimensional work. I could not have generated this outcome any other way.
Needing to reinvigorate my work, I attended a 5-day Abstractionist residency with Judith Kruger at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The result was to release an astounding new channel of expression for me.
I paint on canvas and add mixed media elements. Then I cut, tear, wash and manipulate the canvas. It is not a painting, not a collage, and not textile, rather a fusion of all three. This gives a viewer so much to discover. View it from different angles. Look into the folds, find the shadows, encounter new details. Experience how the 2-dimensional painting morphs into a 3-dimensional piece.
"Unbuttoned" is assembled from several strips of painted canvas of varying sizes. It is embellished with strings of painted buttons. Some are hidden, others clearly in sight. They dangle free, casting their shadows on the canvas. The folds of the piece, and the yarn and threads also cast shadows, on both the wall and parts of canvas itself. They create some ambiguity, some mystery. What is inside those folds? Where do the buttons come from? What is their purpose? There are so many possibilities. I leave it to you to decide your own answers.
With manipulation, the flat canvas becomes a 3-dimensional work. I could not have generated this outcome any other way.