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JOHNSON,
VT - An explosion of movement, color, and joy
greets the visitor to the Painted Caravan's new
exhibit "Emotions in Abstraction". The three women
artists Arista N. Alanis, Leila Bandar, and Barbara
Molloy, may have in common the importance of the
working process of creating their abstract pieces,
but the resulting imagery is uniquely their own.
Forms and colors fill the gallery with the artists'
sense of playfulness at what they do.
For
Arista Alanis the process of creation happens
through routine. The routine walks that calm her
mind and clear her thoughts to be responsive to the
moments of happiness and inspiration. Then the
rigid routine in her studio to eliminate the
distractions, allowing a mind set completely
responsive to the paint and canvas before her. This
allows a free give and take relationship with the
colors and marks building on the canvas. The
results are a joyful energetic trip through color
and motion for the viewer. Alanis's work can take
you on an immediate journey through her marks of
color or it can draw you in deeper, discovering
each time you look, a new joy to
explore.
Leila
Bandar says in her artist statement that working
with her hands is not something that she thinks
about. It is something that she needs to do, like
eating or sleeping. The surprising and playful
forms of her sculptures attest to the comfort she
exhibits in her materials and process. The
materials, common construction steel, rods, and
2x4s, are not seen in her eyes as the materials for
building as they were intended. They become
materials to create forms that live in a different
realm from their intended use. Seen in this way,
the materials excite Bandar's work, and for the
viewer, show us her quest to understand her
adoration of life around her.
"This
work is about joy bursting at the seams" quoted
from Barbara Molloy, the work reflects that in a
big energetic and intensely colorful way. The marks
and lines in these monotypes take the viewer in
with their boundless movement and intensity. We are
drawn through Barbara's process of play by musical
rhythms of color and lines that hold us captive to
the joy contained in the moment of making the
print. She says that her abstractions come from
memory recordings in her mind of her experiences.
Experiences in nature, life, and single moments,
that come together in the instant of creation in
the print studio. The resulting Monotypes are full
of freshness, history, and an overwhelming joy of
action.
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