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I had been painting very large still lives [from the Changy to New York series - see Table Horizon 1] in which the back of the table became a virtual horizon. Having wandered to the bar on floor 107 of the World Trade Center I was struck by the view looking east towards Brooklyn and beyond, to Far Rockaway and the sea. There was the horizon! I wondered what would happen if my large but intimate still life horizons met the "actual" horizon, which this view opened up. I imagined horizontal images, but had not reckoned with the force of the World trade Center's architecture. It was impossible to see the view without being aware of the vertical windows that framed it. The later paintings of the Fragile Horizon series (shown in 2000 at the Chapelle des Dominicains in France - Brooklyn Trio 1 & 2, Brooklyn Quartet, Brooklyn Quintet, Chapel Quartet), explore the sculptural realm. They do not explode the canvas but instead array themselves in free hanging multiples conceived for particular locations. In the final Quintet, nature in its peace replaces the chaotic structure of the man made horizon. The vertigo of the view from the 91st floor is transformed into a horizontal one looking onto the still peace of water, sky and earth. All that remains of the original view is this suspension of earth between water and sky as framed by these very particular openings.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:6 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:11.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
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The role of the artist is to offer a point of view so that those looking at the work may better reflect on their ways of seeing. Until 2003 the places I painted were physical - the farmhouse in France, the view from the World Trade Center - but I saw my relation to them as exploring manifestations of humanity. Places carry the ideas of the cultures that built them, the scattering of things are traces of the people who lived there. Paintings of place are representations of World Views. In 2003 this interest in place and ideas has took me into an ongoing encounter with genomics and the space of science, a ten year involvement with the Broad Institute (a genomics research institute at MIT) and increasing engagement with the world of interdisciplinary collaborations. In this new body of work I am looking at Art and Science as interacting fields with which we construct meaning and structure our thoughts. As an artist I am used to making leaps of intuition towards new spaces of artistic inquiry. The most recent of these leaps occured in November 2016 when I attended the NAS conference “Discovering the Deep Blue Sea” which brought together a diversity of scientists, technologist, artists and educators, to focus their attention on the Mesopelagic zone. The working group on the microbiome and biodiversity of which I was part, came up with the fascinating overarching question: Does the Ocean have Memories? In other words, can we use the metaphor of memory to ask questions differently about the biological and physical systems of the mesopelagic? And how can interdisciplinary collaborations - including artmaking - lead to new ways of seeing and telling the stories about the ocean? I hope you enjoy these images, and find in them substantive points of entry into the flow of ideas that we call contemporary life.
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