(photo above)

DISRUPTOR Series

no.1-16, random order

Works on Paper

2020

DISRUPTOR Series

I have put the HEAD & HEART Series to bed.  It has been a wonderful journey of exactly 2 years that began with a month long residency in Truro MA at Edgewood Farm at the Truro Center for Arts. My goal was merely to work on my own compositional skill, specifically, contrast and entry and exit points of the painting.  I repeated the exercise that August at a 2 week residency at Peaked Hill offered through the Outer Cape Artist Residency Consortium in the Cape Cod National Seashore, while living in a dune shack on the beach.  When I returned to Pittsburgh, I continued on this path, naming the subsequent group HEAD & HEART, as the decisions come from both my head, (the contemplative and purposeful process involving my education and experience)  and my heart, (an intuitive process, working within no boundaries).  My goal has never changed throughout the completion of 24 EDGEWOOD FARMS, 11 PEAKED HILLS and exactly 58 HEAD & HEARTS.  I choose to offer more information with less detail.  Through all, I have challenged myself to think differently and question preconceptions about landscape and reality.  

The uninterrupted time at home and my prolific creative nature has led me to ponder my work and process. The work has become more time consuming and involves a greater interest in depth and energy. The layering of complex color and texture has become more intricate.   I recognize that my work involves disruption as an evolutionary process, to which there is no direct path, one that requires forward-thinking decisiveness.  I think and act purposefully, looking for opportunity and innovation in each piece and this process develops over time.  I have become competent in the landscape and learned to trust myself and create as if there are no mistakes.  But as a disruptor, success is not an immediate requirement.  In each, I have found ways to incorporate information that temporarily interrupts the path of the eye. These disruptors are found in our natural landscape in abundance, but are often traded out by design.  It is the painterly marks, the ones that give hints of perceived information, that I call DISRUPTORS. I use them to ultimately create energy and depth.  While some merely interrupt an otherwise quiet landscape, others are inflicted upon the view, commanding your attention.  I urge you to view the new work and look for the disruptors and judge why the artist has taken the opportunity to regulate your perception of her work.

P.O.M. Painting of the Month

HEAD & HEART 68

10"x10" on paper, framed in black

(The last one, already out the door- SOLD and off to Santa Fe NM)

WHY I LOVE IT

I am an abstract landscape artist.  People often ask me if I work from photos or how I begin. The horizon gives me a base, an armiture/skelton on which to build.  I can't seem to leave it behind.  I am then allowed a loose interpretation of color, scale or gesture, without loosing the ability to read it as a landscape.  The ideas for my art comes from my mind.  I suppose that they are all directed from observing nature and my travel, but I have no idea where the work will go when I begin. When I begin, there are no mistakes and eventually I see the connections and work with the positives.  This one was pretty much textbook in all of the above. I love when people have a favorite painting of mine and one with which they connect and I love that everyone's favorite is different.  I love that someone gets what I was trying to express.  Thank you to my FB friend who purchased it for his own birthday gift.  BTW- it was my husband's favorite too!

Contact me, it would make my day!

Until June, very hearty handshakes,

Kim