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She is a rendering of a photograph from a ripped-out fragment of a magazine. Working with pieces of fabric felt like the perfect way to express a fleeting moment of a fleeting life in a worn-torn country--something of an actual person is felt in the threads of some clothing. The work is dimensional--it is not flat--the fabric floats on the surface. This artwork exhibited in the Hahn Garden Gallery at Virginia Tech (VPI & SU) in January and February, 2019. I don't know which magazine the photo came from or who the photographer was, but her face was haunting. This is the only artwork I have on canvas--I nearly always use fabric in combination with household objects or found objects--and it consists of shorn bottle caps and scraps of fabric glued over an orange painted background. I'm inspired by the works of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. For me, art is the teller of hidden stories, secret stories--it's visual medicine in the guise of symbols in a coded language.
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Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
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Symbolist artists said that 'everything in the real world is little more than a hieroglyphic of some transcendent idea', or, as Edgar Allan Poe put it: 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream'. The intention behind the making of all of my art was to make the invisible world visible; while early work addressed invisible or hidden issues like domestic violence and incest among others, the overwhelming majority of the work points to another thing. Some of the earlier social justice pieces are in the Brooklyn Museum's online Feminist Artbase. I work mostly with fabric because I love the texture and dimension, I use a lot of everyday items because I like to relate the ideas using a 'common alphabet' in a surprising way. I'm drawn to and inspired by all kinds of hieroglyphs, symbols, and even words-as-symbols . Where I've used my own or somebody else's words you can find the complete text on my website. I love Robert Rauschenberg's use of everyday objects, yard shows in the American South and their ties to African art and culture, collages of all kinds, especially Romare Bearden's, the paintings of Pedro Figari, and Jacob Lawrence's portrayals of working people. I earned a Bachelor of Science in biology, dozed off in research and clinical laboratories, and then traveled around the world. In the intervening years, Bophuthaswana, Barcelona, Paris, Buenos Aires, Lausanne, and London called themselves temporary homes. I had two solo shows in Nashville, two in North Carolina, and was invited to many group shows around the U.S.
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