Where There's a Water, 2008-09
Oil on linen
56 x 72 inches
Silent Jubilee, 2008
11x 14
Mudflat, 2008
36 x 44
Joker, 2009
11 x 14
よかったやっと見つけた…。
３月の研修旅行先で一目惚れして以来ずっと気になってたアーチスト、今度は忘れない様にしなくては。
突然ふっと名前を思い出したのは何故だろう。
Where There's a Water欲しい…。
実際に見るとオイルを削ったりにじませたり技の一つ一つがとても生々しくてそれがまた凄く綺麗。
2007よりも落ち着いた色合いの絵が多くなって来ている事が嬉しい。
もう一度、実際にこの目で見たい。
Although my work has always had a specific context, the act of painting most compels me. Paint leads me essentially and gives me the opportunity to reinvent landscape, the natural world, and myself. Above all paint can invent a space through the exploration of uncharted territories and imagined landscapes. Painting ignites and empowers my awareness of our diminishing natural resources and, within that vast arena, I have chosen to focus on water above and below the earth's and our own skin. Many of these works were created in Maine and pay homage to known water sources such as oceans, aquifers and lakes. I try equally to express the lost stillness of place.
I recall the sensibilities of other artists driven throughout history who have felt the visceral connection to nature in similar ways: the silence and grandeur in nature of Friedrich, Courbet, and Turner; the physically and passionately built quality of Cezanne's paintings; or, in the contemporary world, the overarching energy and movement in the work of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown and Anselm Kiefer.
I
construct a painting like a poem. I find the rhythm and essential
movement by beginning organically to build a structure through a series
of marks and colors that become more connected to one another and to
memory as the painting develops. I work in layers, washes, heavy
gestural strokes, sweeps of the palette knife, and scratches, dots, and
rectangles. A new stroke is like discovering a new word. The more I
work on a painting the more physical I become until it feels like there
is little distinction between where I leave off and where the painting
begins. Although painting is personal, these paintings also address the
ecological and ultimately cultural issues of our time as we fight over,
transport, over use, pollute, dry up and neglect water.
— Anne Neely
ウェブサイトの作品紹介文が３月のときに展示室で見たものよりも丁寧になっている。
コンセプトも素敵。環境問題と、自分の幼少期の思い出をリンクさせている。
not too literal
そして
not too personal
でもある。
私も、もっともっと考えなければいけない。
プロポーサルに力を入れて頼り切るとイメージが疎かになるし、
見栄えよく見せたいと思ってしまったら中身が薄いと言われる。
まだまだバランスが上手く取れなくて、とても不安定な作品しか出来ない。
本当は考えなんて無しに自由に描きたいのだけれど、講師達、テクニシャン達の事を思うと、どうも。
とにかく今は教えてくれる人達がいるのだから、そこから学べる事を学ばなければ勿体ない。
やりたいことはそれからひとりでゆっくりやればいい。
よーし
なんだかこういうのって青春ぽいな。