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Postcard from Roswell
From the artist's statement:
Postcard from Roswell is a collection of contemporary folk-art portraits and masks (mug shots, wanted posters on a decaying post office wall, / the senior class from the bad dream yearbook). I ask myself if painting these faces is an exercise in mining deep memory. I had that thought when my mother viewed several of my early attempts and stopped suddenly saying, “I know this person—who is this?” I, too, had recognized a persona. What I painted looked little like anyone we knew, but it captured a recognizable essence. My first impulse with a blank canvas is to paint a face. Occasionally I recognize it, or some aspect of it. More often, an image arrives and claims its own personhood.
Portraits / Masks
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Folk / Outsider
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Acrylic, watercolor, sumi ink, on 140 lb. paper
Dimensions: 14” x 17” - framed