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Studio B, Hotel Downstreet, Public Space: Patricia Symonds and Lyn Horton (The branch drawings were traced onto the white painted areas of 20 Following My Bliss drawings from 2008 to make entirely new drawings as seen in the introductory photograph of Following My Bliss Reprise 1-20, 2008-2026.) I have only documented my work for this…
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A well-educated and art-savvy person came to my studio once and reviewed the work he saw on the walls. At the time, the art on the walls was the Unique Series and one of the Two Large Drawings, Overlapping Branches. He commented that many of the “technical aspects” he was familiar with, because he had…
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The image above gives the punch line before the story. I put it here because it represents the exhale after four months or so of working on this series. The Raining Form series was concerned with finding the balance between a defined form, photographs of that defined form, and improvised drawing. This is the form:…
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I don’t remember ever having drawn on canvas except in Graduate School at CalArts. John Baldessari happened to come into my studio and see a drawing on canvas that I had just finished. He said that he loved it. This statement coming from someone who fought to keep me out of Graduate School. Paul Brach,…
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These two large drawings are a culmination of months of dwelling on the desire to tell my personal story in coalescing the visual aspects that have been touched in the development of my work. Both “themes” originated from the last of the Unique Series where somehow the contours of one leaf and one branch found…
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In the early 80s, my motivic concerns became geometric. Like some teetering-on-middle-age artists, I was trying to figure out how I could put myself in the world, now that I had a child and was rolling through life, raising my boy, in a big house in the country. Life was, to put it simply, not…
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Throughout my art-making years, from the beginning to where the work falls now, the subject matter of the work has vacillated from an uncertain minimalism to unquestionable surface engagement. My travels have not been intellectually easy. I wanted to land and stay put for a while and I did when the hatched line drawings prevailed.…
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Liberated Forms 1-42 evolved from the photograph series Drawing with Nature 1-100 and Drawing with Nature 101-207, which were completed in 2023. I randomly chose 42 out of the 207 because they seemed viable for moving the shapes within them. I cannot trace back these 42 images to their original state in the two aforementioned…
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This series of four drawings began haphazardly to reconcile language, image, and natural form into how they can come together sensibly. Once again I chose an Oriental screen painting format to work with this subject matter. They are each 60 inches long and 22-1/4 inches wide. The idea for a leaf “to float” started with…
