You are here

Dana Wolfson - 'Machinations'

Type:

Country:

Categories:

Exhibition Type:

How many artists: 
1
Date: 
Saturday, 6 August 2022 to Sunday, 28 August 2022
Opening: 
Saturday, 6 August 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Join us for the opening reception of this remarkable mixed media exhibit! 56 Main St (Rt 12), Ashburnham, MA. Wine and refreshments will be served.
Artist's Statement:
There is nothing more glorious than waking to a morning with a singular focus, to the grand director of the day’s activities...purpose. The sense of purpose found in making art. For some years I believed that I would never succeed as a proper artist. I didn't understand how to make two dimensions into three. I created no landscapes, no portraits. After all, “successful artists” were expected to produce such things.

I held this view until a university lecturer once asked, “why should I spend years laboring to achieve a ‘proper’ portrait when I have already achieved a signature style?”. This observation was a lightening bolt for me - a stellar concept. I was finally given permission to draw. And draw I did. On everything in fact. Drumheads, tree bark, wood cigar boxes et cetera.

Horror Vacui (also kenophobia, from Greek, "fear of the empty")
I was obsessed by the complex images of H. Bosch and Albrecht Durer’s woodcuts. Activity energizing the image everywhere. I use this approach when I draw, filling every available space with energy. The ‘rejects’ from these efforts becoming fodder for collage constructions.

A friend once mused that my art expressed an ‘alien language’, that Martians must be using my hands as a vehicle to communicate. Whilst an interesting concept, art production is a purposeful act. My iconography has existed from the first drawings/diddies to my present work.

My work celebrates the sphere - the bulbous - the curve. Thus, all works are ultimately founded on some form of the circle or overwhelmed by the circular. Humans appear to have an unusual and consistent need to mark their surroundings one way or another. Perhaps a primal urgency to mark one’s territory. My, what an entitled argument! My identity and purpose in life remain inextricably linked to art making. And, just sometimes, a work results that appears as though it was meant to exist.

Curator :

Telephone: 
978-827-6211
Venue ( Address ): 

56 Main St, Ashburnham, MA 01430

Other events from Creative Connections Gallery

view
Jim Eng - 'Past, Present & Future'
04/06/2024
view
Self Awareness & Love - A Poetic Reading
02/17/2024
view
Jen Okumura - 'Self Awareness and Love: All-Inclusive Works'
02/03/2024 to 03/30/2024
view
Ashburnham Arts & Culture Day 2023
12/02/2023

Pages

 

Related Shows This Week

view
Ghost Town
03/28/2024 to 04/06/2024
view
TANGLED LINES AND SHIFTING SHADOWS
02/27/2024 to 04/14/2024
view
In the Belly of the Valley
03/14/2024 to 04/13/2024
view
Debbi Kenote and Mark Sengbusch: Cross Cut
03/08/2024 to 04/20/2024
view
La Encañado
03/08/2024 to 04/19/2024
view
Thinkspace Projects Presents Five New Exhibitions in March
03/09/2024 to 03/30/2024
view
Jen Okumura - 'Self Awareness and Love: All-Inclusive Works'
02/03/2024 to 03/30/2024
view
Oldies and Goodies
03/07/2024 to 04/08/2024

Pages