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This Seat Is Taken Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 60 H x 2 D in
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About The Artwork
This Seat is Taken (© 2019 Elaine Weiner-Reed; Acrylic on canvas, 60H x 38W inches) “Owning it. She breathes, she feels, she exists. Living life out loud and in technicolor. Unapologetic, she takes her rightful seat. She has earned it and she is savoring the moment and the freedom it brings.” Background and Artist Reflections: “This Seat Is Taken” is my vision of a strong, confident woman. I feel as though I have been apologetic for a lot of my life because of a combination of nature and nurture. I grew up as a shy and inhibited girl where the child-rearing philosophy was that “children should be seen and not heard” during a time when men were considered the “breadwinners in the family” and the woman’s job was to support him. Also, I didn’t and still do not like to do harm or hurt anyone’s feelings, so I found myself apologizing even when another person was clearly at fault. Trying to play peace-maker often led to heartbreak of one kind or another. Breaking out of such bindings, roles, and stereotypes has taken decades. With each decade and experience came some more confidence. The truth is, we cannot change others. We only have the power to change ourselves. In any situation or set of circumstances, we each have the power to choose our attitude. Knowing that, I choose to be happy, to own my joy and not give others the power to take it away. Painting and naming This Seat is Taken took place over about an 18-month process as I was working through and dealing with negative dynamics in the workplace. This painting and several other pieces helped in my healing. Many of you may know that I often incorporate an empty chair into my paintings (http://www.elaineweinerart.com/2019/10/the-red-chair-from-painting-to-poem.html ) and juxtapose them with my figures. An empty chair can convey many emotions or evoke memories depending on a scene. In This Seat is Taken, the woman boldly and confidently sat down in the empty chair. As she did, she took possession of the scene, and the background and other figures began to blur and take on less importance – leaving the overall atmosphere energized and alive with promise. Center stage, one shoe kicked off and out of the painting, Woman is clearly comfortable in her own skin. She makes me smile. I want to be more like her. Let’s “own it,” shall we?
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 60 H x 2 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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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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