![]() She is former President of the Visual Arts Alliance, Northwest Art League and The Lone Star Art Guild, an alliance of 15 art groups in Southeastern Texas. She began making art in the late 1960's, and since then has had over 35 one woman shows and won numerous awards. Mary Ann Lucas was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois of parents who emigrated from Poland in 1928. I sketched some of these poses, then turned them into 3-D with clay and then back to 2-D with photography. I was working in pottery when I created the clay figures. I became fascinated with looking at them from various angles thinking how it represented the complexity of man and wanted to capture these poses through photography. By using them I hope to convey a message of hope, understanding and respect for all beliefs.Īlexander Calder as my inspiration combined with my love of the line led me to create these wire figures. Angels, woman with child, uplifted hands, ancient writings, Aztec mask, human figures. My work in this exhibit reflects my desire to explore the complexity of humanity through imagery. Early in my career Edgar Degas and then later Alexander Calder and Robert Rauschenberg has been most influential in my work - giving me permission to try anything. This method enables me to keep my work fresh and creative. I know I learn from each experience.īy doing this I am trying to present another dimension to the viewer in an interesting manner - working intuitively, linking one idea to the next as I progress toward a finished product. If something doesn't work one way I try another. ![]() Color is also very important and guides me throughout the creative process. Recycling my artwork by tearing, cutting, repainting, making my own paper and treating various other papers with a variety of art supplies, and also using found objects, has allowed me to expand and explore different ways of presenting my love of man and nature through collage. Working in a variety of mediums enables me to constantly explore new possibilities and to push the composition to the limit. I feel I can explore my creativity to the fullest when I work this way. With each step I have unlimited choices to reach my final destination. I view my work as an exciting journey into the unknown. I started my artistic career depicting reality in nature and life and have evolved to a more abstract representation of that reality. I consider myself an experimental artist. She lives and works in an old schoolhouse in Saratoga County, NY with her husband Nick Warner and their black pug, Bianca. Her work has been exhibited regionally in New York state, including the Visual Arts Gallery at Adirondack Community College, the Yates Gallery at Siena College, The Albany Center Galleries, and the Albany Institute of History and Art. She currently works as an adjunct instructor at Adirondack Community College and a collections assistant and art handler at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Laura Frare earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from The University at Albany and a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz. To learn more about Laura you may visit her website. I have also selected 4 sketchbook drawings made during a recent trip to Italy in June 2008. Seen as a group, there is a gestalt in the pattern of repetition and variation seen in the relationships of color, texture, imagery and detail within the whole.įor this exhibit I have presented a group of framed photographic enlargements of 6 selected tiles dating from 20. I am in the habit of dating every drawing like a kind of diary, arranging the tiles in chronological order like a calendar, but when they are shown out of context of the whole, in addition to the date, I give each drawing a subtitle based on the words or imagery apparent in the drawing. Continuing to work in this mode every day, the tiles accumulate over time. Taking a cue from the Surrealist game, exquisite corpse, I make daily automatist drawings on painted and sanded grounds that I prepare as blanks on square wood panels. This aleatory process is a means to free my subconscious image-making capabilities to gain access to a more personal vocabulary of image-making and to express those ideas within a visual language. The work emerges from a commitment to the daily practice of automatist drawing. ![]() I am currently involved with a time-based project that explores an abstracted narrative, titled The Tiles Project, which was conceived in the fall of 2002 and continues to this present day. I am interested in the mode of image making that recognizes and allows for the mind's movement toward association.
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