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Primal Scream (In Permanent Collection, Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art) Painting

Elaine Weiner-Reed

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 24 W x 36 H x 3 D in

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Primal Scream “It Ended and Began with one Primal Scream” (poem) A loss and pain so deep… I had an uninvited guest the other day: Pain came knocking. Pain so intense and set on its purpose… like an armor-piercing arrow to my heart… Pain entered…and then took root. And with pain, my heart went dark, ...to sleep (not dead, I hope) …my soul felt empty, sucked dry…. A loss and pain so deep... …and one that I never saw coming. Even though I maybe should have…. So, things were bad. And scary…because my reserve of sustaining memories ...of light and hope... was swallowed up in that Black Hole, that sink hole of pain. Primal. Bottomless. Soul-splitting pain. I was paralyzed in pain for heaven knows how long. Finally, I knew what I had to do first. To begin to heal, I had to honor the loss, memorialize the pain… Only by first letting go…could I move on. Only then, in the aftermath of such pain, could I begin the slow crawl to healing. So, finally, I let it rip: that ear-splitting, octave-breaking, wailing and endless primal scream. It might have lasted for weeks...eons. A loss and pain so deep. I embraced it as humanity’s scream, torn from the womb… Connected in and beyond time and space, stretching and reverberating across planet, solar system, heavens… Timeless and solitary – universal. Oh, powerful, deep, and primal scream. Shrouded now and quiet: With you, came rebirth. - By Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWR) Background and Reflections: When life hits hard, we express ourselves. This work is wrenched from my gut, my heart. Although the painting had been in progress for about two years at the time, it kept fighting me, leaving me unsatisfied. There was more to be done with this canvas on which I had torn through and wrapped with fabric and plaster. On top of that, I added more plaster and sometimes modeling paste. The painting morphed and evolved greatly over the course of time it was on one of my easels. It was frustrating, but I finally knew what it had been waiting for: At the end of January 2014, my mother died, having struggled to overcome her second broken hip - even as she fought for daily breaths with her COPD. I completed this painting in the two weeks between when I learned of her passing and when we buried her in February that year. I am sure my extreme pain was also heightened by the fact that I had lost my Dad almost two years previously to the day. Here is a link to a blog article I wrote two years after her death: http://www.elaineweinerart.com/2016/12/ewrartist-pollyanna-has-left-building.html I find inspiration in every-day life experiences, and I find healing when I am able to paint through my pain. My goal is to come through painful experiences and times with hope and something positive (artwork). This piece and all my work feeds my passion to share my work and positivity with the public. If I can share my and their pain with others for healing and to spread hope, I feel my art has served an important purpose - a good service. With that role comes great responsibility, I learned when I witnessed the healing power of art during my solo exhibition “Masks and Mirrors: Explorations of Identity” at Maryland Hall the Summer of 2018. During the show and after my Gallery Talk many people thanked me for honoring their pain and struggles through my sensitivity and understanding, particularly through my works “Resurrection,” “Sticks and Stones,” and “BraveHeart.” They shared their stories with me and left uplifted – revealing how my personal artist role has expanded to extend far beyond the creation process itself. Also during my show in Chaney Gallery, a staff member confided that during the auditorium memorial service for Wendi Winters, victim of the 28 June 2018 Gazette newspaper shooting in Annapolis, an attendee had passed out and was taken to and resuscitated in my gallery space. Such feedback continues to propel me out of my comfort zone and into the public, where art becomes commitment and engagement. Through outreach, new connections and relationships emerge.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 3 D in

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PHILOSOPHY: In imperfection, lies reality, beauty, and character. As a visual artist, my work examines and responds to the notion of narrative and the interplay between singularity and universality in storytelling. The more personal the story, the more universal its message. Focusing on the imperfect in a world that embraces limited or constrictive definitions of beauty, my goal is to challenge those definitions and perceptions. My hope is that I influence a change of mindset wherein beauty truly is redefined in the eye of each beholder. Unique beauty lies beneath the surface of every individual. - STATEMENT: I create abstract assemblages in shape, color, and line. Finding beauty in the unfinished, my work focuses on relationship dynamics and every-day or chance encounters as they impact identity. With intuition and investigative precision, I explore the energy, motivations, chemistry, and undercurrents between individuals - from the inside, out. My creative process involves building a character in layers, mimicking the way in which identities are formed throughout a lifetime: layer by colorful or complex layer. I let the form and placement of figures and shapes imply subsurface content and emotion. Focused on transience and imperfection, some common themes that run through my work are telling the unknown or hidden stories. - APPROACH: My creative approach parallels my analytical process in that my goal is to try to figure out or resolve challenging situations, encounters, experiences, or relationships. As a result, the beginning phases of new paintings can often appear explosive, congested, chaotic, or seemingly overflowing in conflicting colors and content. These expressionistic elements are integral to the entirety of a piece, providing layers and much of the substrata and undercurrents that need to be emphasized or masked in later stages of the creative process. In later stages my creative process transitions from largely intuitive to a dance between the objective and subjective perspectives in the editing phase, where I construct, deconstruct, reveal, or mask details as needed, weaving a metaphorical interpretation of experiences, while leaving each work enigmatic enough to invite viewers to engage. - FOCUS: My art honors survival and the individual spirit and history of people as they coexist, survive, and interact.

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