Fine Art: Dots, circa 2013
After a hiatus from drawing, I improvised putting down one dot after another, stopping when things came into visual balance. I watched attentively as my process yielded new imagery, growing to include landscapes. I made over 108 seven-inch squares with each work generating the next. These compositions pair dark with light, profane with sacred, chance with control, delicacy with power, and imperfection with balance. The work is minimalistic and intimate. The compositions give further meaning to one another depending on their grouping.
Next, I explored these same interests in glass. After months of testing materials, I arrived at a glass surface much like heavy watercolor paper in its heft, delicacy and deckled edge. But this material shimmers. While the dots in the watercolors were made with iridescent watercolor, these dots are made with 22K gold leaf. Gold is my fervent, spiritual assertion of light in darkness. Harkening to Byzantine cupolas and Japanese kintsugi, my use of gold is a prayer for hope.
Alex suggests mystical places with superimposed forms… orbs of gold, silver, and white… The patterns expand, coalesce and reorganize outwardly in a way that reminds one of a musical score or dance… Her palette is limited… to reduce distraction pulling the viewer to further quiet, irenic tracks.”
—Shoshanna Lansberg, Oregon Jewish Museum
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