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I have been an artist my entire life. My earliest memories are about drawing on any surface that was available or coloring in coloring books with crayons. Art supplies consisted of the largest box of crayons that my parents could afford and popular coloring books ready made for children to color (within the lines) drawings made by coloring book artists. I drew on Envelopes, walls, and any blank space that was an available location for my drawings. I drew designs on borders of school homework papers, on window shades or on the cardboard inserts of laundered shirts. When I was in my teens I drew dresses and evening gowns because I thought I might want to become a dress designer. When I was an adult I became interested in abstraction inspired by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and by American abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Willem de Kooning who were being shown and discussed at that time. My art training at the University of Illinois Chicago was in the tradition of the Bauhaus because many of my professors had been trained by László Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago Bauhaus at the Illinois Institute of Technology. I’ve always lived in the city. The urban landscape is a reference point for shapes and images I use in paintings, monotypes, drawings, and one-of-a-kind artist's books. I wish to transform what I see into an imaginary world populated by all kinds unusual and strange shapes inspired by colors, and buildings in the world around me. Art should stimulate the viewer's imagination and provide an insight into the creative nature of life. It should enhance the life of the viewer in providing a visual experience which is unique and stimulating to their own creativity. In my view, abstraction does this best because it takes away any reference to known things. The viewer is forced to use their imagination to connect with the art. I hope that my art has the power to communicate and that it enriches the lives of those who view it, even though the language used is purely visual, abstract, and non objective. |
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