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Artist’s Statement I am a self-taught painter and printer with the exception of a month spent with Richard Diebenkorn during a 1986 NEA Painting Grant, which prompted my move from Manhattan's Bowery to Colorado. The veil of moist Eastern light had obscured the geometry I sought in Nature until, in mid-career, I awoke to Southwestern sculptural light and dark, and the architectonic structure underlying Western landscape in all seasons. As if my abstract sense had been masquerading as landscape, I changed my focus radically, delighting in the revealed TENSION between illusion in depth and flat patterning on the surface of a canvas, avoiding balance or resolve either way. Travels in two hemispheres, and especially in Coastal California and Africa, have yielded compositions which seem to resonate with pre-verbal childhood memories long ago displaced onto the rural Virginia hills, where first emotions occurred. This unconscious "mental furniture" has persisted through many iterations no matter upon which continent or square foot I have set my easel. Fifty solo gallery shows in as many years of exhibiting nation-wide have resulted in 4 Museum surveys, the most important of which is my 50 year retrospective with its accompanying book Elevated Perspective: the Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry, opening at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center July 2- September 11, 2011. Joellyn Duesberry, August 2011 Additional information: |
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