studio 6

I make art, contemplate, write and behave creatively in studio 6 at Hart-Witzen http://www.hartwitzengallery.com/studio6.html in the NoDa arts district of Charlotte, North Carolina. My studio overlooks a tranquil patch of grass and trees. My bubble wrap curtains allow me to see out and allow the light in.

A studio practice of working daily can be challenging. I have a routine that was a one time very obsessive. Now I am much more laid back. Lately to warm up my creativity I have been painting on photographs. Then I begin working on my installation- a system of organisms that are becoming more topographical and map like. I am using metal wire to crochet it. By afternoon I am painting! It takes me that long to get to the larger modular works.

artist statement

 My recent work focuses on systems and how they become an integrated whole.  It is my interest in philosophy, archeology, science, bricolage, topology and cartography that drives me to investigate and explore.  By drawing upon many combinations of the parts to create a whole, I arrive at harmony and balance in my work. The final work contains interwoven elements of drawing and painting, high and low, fluid and linear, controlled and spontaneous, throughout my process of art making. Ultimately, each of my paintings is a combination and recombination of the inspiration, layered with process and discovery.

Perturbation series

 Work from the “Perturbation” series.

summer painting

summer painting

 

 one small summer

these words i made to fit a poem

is this the gift?

a bridge, a stream, a small stretch of land

i could say:pass

 

some small summer

one gone quickly

not like a painted poem

whose nourishment continues

overflowing

bursting

weaving it’s way

running rings around the air

 ©2002

little beings

little beings

strange things unify together
little objects, tiny things, hidden treasures
codes of nature
mysterious
blip blap blip blap blip blap
this is the language of my time
picnoleptic moments
here not here
just where I left myself
the thing you were looking for is right where you left it
no longer lost
phenomenological things
familiar and the unfamiliar
together
natural and unnatural
Silly yet serious
Opposites/attraction/repulsion
gathering’s form doodles
this is a correspondence
these are my events
©2001