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“Scrib Moonlight I”  (Series)

Oil and graphite on linen

Lisa Dawn Gold © 2014



ABOUT THE RECENT PAINTINGS

 

     I have always been attracted to energetic fluid and masterly drawings.  Equally, I have been envious of the incredible freedom in drawings made from my early drawing machines.  And of certain more primitive childlike artists.


The quest of such attractions is to somehow arrive at these artistic states naturally.   So, most of my artistic practice has been based on extensive experimentation. 


In making art, there is the ego part of ourselves that wants to show accomplishment.   But maybe an even deeper part of us wants to be completely free. 

  

This past year I was messing around with paint (painting) and I followed this urge to let it all go not trying to make or do anything.  The result was a human scribble similar to my early drawing machines, but I had made them, not a machine.   There seemed to be even more freedom than some of my early 1980’s drawings (above right).


In this letting go in the painting process, there was a wonderful feeling of exhilaration, unlike my typical more observant tone.  I’d felt it a breakthrough until I was reorganizing a storage space and looked back at some older works I’d done in the early 80’s.  I realized that I’d come full circle back to a territory I’d worked in from the very beginning of my career.  The only difference was in 1980 I did not have the confidence and discernment of 30 plus years under my belt as a professional contemporary artist.   I’d not the experience then of one who had gone in many directions only to return to that which was natural then.  And now, feels absolutely right once again.


There have been wisdoms learned from many disciplines I‘ve studied in my life.   In Zen Archery, you are taught that you hit your target at the moment you let go, releasing the drawn bow.  In Buddhism, it is in the emptying, not the acquiring where one attains.  Both of these concepts are not very eastern and for most Americans like swimming upstream. 


For an artist charting newer creative waters, one has to follow the little crumbs that hint at which direction to go.  It is instinct the artist must heed.  ironically when not seeming not to try, one still makes hundreds of esthetic decisions in every moment of their process


I can only say that the feeling of complete un-attachment to an outcome felt soooooooo goooood.   An artist has to trust they are onto something -or- back again where they began over 35 years ago.





PAINTINGS  2012 - 13PAINT_12-13.html

Portrait of Ted Kurahura

LDG © 1980

Mean Reds

Graphite on paper

LDG © 1983

Moonlight  Series Exhibition ViewPAINTING_NEW_Moonlight_Exhibition.html

NEW PAINTINGS



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