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Denise Brown |
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| "Bird Architecture"
69" X 70"
carved tar paper/gesso |
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| "Bird Drawing #1"
41" X 29"
carved tar paper, collage |
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| Artist's Statement |
In the time that I’ve been working, I have found that making art is a mysterious and humbling process.
For many years, I had been influenced by the most mundane and sometimes the most radical, finding I guess that on some level, they were almost equal.
I was wound around the idea of storytelling through everything I experienced. Everything from children’s tales, cartoons, advertising to history, Shakespeare, science, and religion; they all seemed to share the basic laws of human drama. And of course these are the tales that still interest me most.
But then everything stopped.
The basic laws of human drama became much more personal. I found myself unable to work with the same approach as I had in the past and for the first time in many years, I found myself just drawing. Surprisingly, I began to draw not knowing how the image would evolve or if it would evolve and while my influences were still perhaps the same, my perceptions had changed. Trees, birds, burred vines, twisted limbs and broken branches, all seemed to explain more of the personal tale and this drama is the story that I still live through the most.
2007 |
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