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All
works are flashe, acrylic and tempera on paper vellum on canvas over
panel. |
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Fabula North Avenue #4,
24" x 48" |
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Fabula North Avenue Ends,
24" x 48" |
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North Avenue Tree Study 2,
12" x 24 1/4" |
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Artist Statement:
Chicago landscapes are
presented in these new paintings with an awareness of the landscape as
a screen, a locus of human fantasy and psychological projection. The
landscape becomes a metaphor for artistic practice, that utopia
wherein one would find the time, resources and impulse with which to
make art.
Fabula, both a noun and a verb, is
Latin for “story”. It is also the root of the word “confabulate”,
which means to fill in gaps in one’s knowledge with fabricated
information that one believes to be true. Fabula: North Avenue is a
project that began with the notion of composing a landscape depicting
the whole length of North Avenue in Chicago, from Harlem to the
Lakefront, by representing one tree per block. The trees were painted
from photographic projections. Initially presented as one 30-foot
work, the panels have been reconfigured to stand alone and in smaller
groupings. Subsequent works in the Fabula series have been drawn from
other phenomena observed along North Avenue. |
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“Although they
[utopias] have no real locality there is nevertheless a fantastic,
untroubled region in which they are able to unfold; they open up …
countries where life is easy, even though the road to them is
chimerical … This is why utopias permit fables and discourse: they run
with the very grain of language and are part of the fundamental
dimension of the fabula.” - Michel Foucault, The Order of Things,
Vintage, 1973, p. xviii
“All our landscapes, from the city park to the mountain hike, are
imprinted with our tenacious, inescapable obsessions.” --Simon
Schama, Landscape and Memory, 1995. |
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