The inventive, colorful textiles of the 1960s and 1970s inspire these paintings which are playful attempts to complicate the conventions of landscape painting.Those conventions compose space with clear a foreground and background. But imagery in textiles usually exist on one plane. So, figure and ground are deliberately confused in this series.
Landscape painting also reinforces our distance from the material world by making us into observers of nature rather than participants in it. I hope to reverse this distancing by helping viewers be part of the painting in a full-bodied way. |
