Salon Artists Exhibition, the Art Gallery at TCC

Life, even in its stillest moments, is pulsing, breathing and evolving. This movement and constant change is integral to the feeling of aliveness of our world, our universe. How does an artist attempt to capture this aliveness?  In my art practice it often means things like throwing out one point perspective or not rendering an exact likeness of a subject. I’ve been excited to have discovered some successes with subjects like trees, water and earth in attaining this feeling of “aliveness”. But I kept asking myself, “how do I put the human figure into these types of pictures that (hopefully) move and morph and refuse to stay still?” This question was the prompt for all of my work seen here. All of these pictures were born, developed and finished congruently in my studio over the last couple of months. My idea was that I’d do some pieces without human figures, and translate them into sibling pieces that would include them. It worked, mostly (there are a couple pictures that didn’t make the cut). The differing work did inform each other helped to discover a color or mark and move me past sticking points.