Una colaboración entre AFAD de Barcelona y el Consulado General de Portugal
Arte / Artesanos
Herstory/Dona Historia
I am so grateful for this article written by Perico Pastor about my show Herstory/Dona Historia in Contrast Gallery, Barcelona , Spain.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
hans hoffman
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so the the necessary may speak.”Hans Hofmann
An amazing art teacher in the 1930´s and 1940's he opened his own school in Provincetown , Massachusetts. Among his students were: Lee Krasner, Israel Levitan, Helen Frankenthaler, Gerome Kamrowski, Michael Loew, Joseph Plaskett, Fritz Bultman, William Ronald, Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg, Ray Eames, Larry Rivers, Jane Frank, Mary Frank, Nell Blaine, Robert de Niro, Sr., Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Wolf Kahn, Marisol Escobar, Paul Resika, Sy Kattelson, Nicholas Krushenick, Burgoyne Diller, Mercedes Matter, James Gahagan, Erle Loran, Paul Georges, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Judith Godwin, Lynne Mapp Drexler, Roland Petersen and Donald JarvisCuriously, Hans Hoffman came from a mathematics and science background.He saw nature as a source of art and believed art had a spiritual value. He wrote an important and influential book(essay) titled, "Search for the Real" explaining his spatial push/pull theories. I was luckyenough to study with one of his monitors of his class.
'The Gate', 1959-1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
street scenes in Toronto“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
Joseph CampbellI am thrilled to be here in Toronto. It is always challenging to change your "residence" and find one´s way around a new city. But this new situation also gives one an opportunity to have another perspective on life and one´s work. Being foreign is very familiar to me. It helps me be an observer and think outside of the box. Toronto is extremely diverse and full of opportunities. In the studio I am creating a "Magical Dress" that I will share with you soon. We are scheduled to have a show at the end of the month.
Some years ago I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was in a women´s poetry group. This experience inspired me to make a 6 foot dress made of poetry, sand,moss, etc. I just recovered a great video an artist(Cynthia Buzzard) made of me and the other women in the group in a procession with the dress walking down Canyon Road..Enjoy!
http://youtu.be/WKfTnBQH_eY
Dream Textiles
A collection of pieces I have been working on for the last year is my sewing on silk and textile. The act of sewing here for me is meditative and automatic. I do not pretend to be a textile artisan but I am learning as I go along and I see it more as a personal signature. These wall hangings have words juxtaposed with images. Their transparency and elusiveness may evoke a dreamlike state.
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