Moods and Patterns

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A visitor to my studio:
“I look around at every painting of yours and don’t see a glimmer of hope.”

Ha-ha.

The joke is, I’m happy as a clam when I paint. The minute I enter my studio my spirits lift. Even in the face of a difficult painting, I’m ecstatic!

So what does an artist make of what people see in her paintings? Do people see what they want to see? Do they see what they don’t want to see?

Some of my favorite shows recently (and best of all, I was INVITED!):
Art & Words, Emerge Gallery — I wrote poems to my paintings and poets wrote poems to my paintings and then I did a painting inspired by a poet.

344 Second Street Troy — the curator and owner, Jean Tansey, herself a wonderful artist, selected a bunch of my paintings to exhibit, especially the larger ones, especially happy about that am I, since I’m painting really, really small lately. (I prefer to think I’m squeezing big ideas into small spaces.)

Albany Center — an email out of the blue invited me to exhibit in this beautiful space in the heart of downtown Albany surrounded by soaring brutalist architecture.
And… upcoming

The one and only Saugerties Open Studio Tour — visit me in my studio August 12 and13,
STUDIO #3 c’est moi ! Visit me, visit me. I love studio visits.

Silence of Nowhere

acrylic paintings, art, contempory art, female artist

“Silence of Nowhere” — my latest series, still ongoing, of the inbetween, in limbo, etc. Landscapes, seascapes, people… Some of these are parts of 2 panels…like frames of a film (not all pictured here).

Landscapes are a new adventure for me, and a solace. They should mirror the inscape, not just add to the canon of pretty-pretty. Some of these paintings are a combination chalk pastel and acrylic and ink.

Ashurst30.48cm x 40.64 cm 12 x 16

30 x 20 Ice Flow

Silence of Nowhere 3

40 x 40 Silence of Nowhere

16 x 20 At Sea

Gutelius, Halleluyah, 20 x 18

16 x 28 Family.jpg

(More) paintings revisited, retouched, and two new

acrylic paintings, contempory art

Fall is slowly arriving in the Hudson Valley, and the splash of colors I see from the windows of my studio inspire me to add my own splash of colors. Slight differences between the old and new versions of paintings — old, meaning in my case a few months’ old, since I only started painting in January this year.

And also, two new paintings… Berlin Celebration (below) may need a few splashes of color — but for now I like the white-on-black and hint of red and yellow. This painting would not be possible without the inspiration of Gerhard Richter’s early amazing monochromes.

Berlin Celebration, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 26

And Street Art Berlin (below), hmmm…. this really is a slightly altered depiction of wall art I saw on my last trip to Berlin — a lot of famous artists have added their splashes to the buildings in Berlin, and this could be one by the infamous and wonderful Richard Prince (note the “U R So Porno Baby”), which would be perfect, considering he borrows from others as I am presumably borrowing from him in this painting. With all due respect. He follows me on Instagram. And he lives nearby. Howdy, neighbor. I should tag him. Oh, yes, I’ll do that.

Street Art Berlin, acrylic on canvas, 19 x 25

Theater Berlin (old version)

Theater Berlin, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 16

School Days, old version

School Days, acrylic on canvas, 22 1/2 x 30 1/2

Planet X, old version

Planet X, acrylic on canvas, 22 x 23

Paintings and drawings sold recently

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This August I hosted an open studio. Met some great people and made some sales. Here’s my goodbye to my babies…(I’m trying to remember them all!) Alas, there are two I don’t have photos of.