Complications #1
24x24
Acrylic and Ink
I am in the midst of a powerful history book, Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Five Painters And The Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel.
The artists of that time were blazing pioneers running from the flames of two horrific World Wars and running into the flames of an art form never seen and little understood. These then unknown artists, were driven to find a new way of expression, not found in the visual world around them, but in their down-the-rabbit-hole imaginations.
At first, the public majority jeered and dismissed their art, imagine the courage it took to continue.
Musician Morty Feldman captured the mood with scalpel like precision:
Art is a crucial, dangerous operation
we perform on ourselves.
we perform on ourselves.
Unless we take a chance, we die in art.
My change in direction is not nearly as daunting. I see in this new work the underpinnings of my previous paintings, but now I no longer feel like I'm fighting against the canvas. I feel the work is freer, flowing from my internal landscape. It's as if I have come to a point, where I feel a sense of belonging with the art. I'm creating in concert, not opposition. My ego is muted and my being has space to speak.
After months of frustrating experimentation, I painted Complications #1, the first successful work in the new series. And it sold within 24 hours of posting it on social media. A kiss from the Universe, I am on the right path...for now. Because just as Feldman said decades ago, if we stagnate in our art, we die in art.
My curiosity and excitement are bound twins in the quest of where this will lead.
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