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April Hannah
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In my paintings and drawings I am exploring and deconstructing the essential process of making art. When creating my work, I begin with an underlying structure created by repeatedly tracing the abstract contour of a shape that was cut away from an automatic drawing (or scribble). Looking within the network of undulating charcoal lines, forms reveal themselves to me. A thin wash of paint stains the paper or raw canvas. Spatial relationships unfold through a free-associative method of defining, eliminating and redefining forms with thin and thick layers of color.
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Orange Colored Sky
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The resulting composition is an organically produced combination of arabesque-like transparencies and solid, puzzle-like shapes. These different forms coalesce into a new, contemporary kind of Modernist or Abstract Expressionist work in which gestures made through time are apparent on the painting’s layered surface.
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Between Two Worlds
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Broad Cove
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We Two Alone
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The system by which forms generate within my work is in response to self-organizing patterns of nature, such as the flow structure of a river delta as it meets the sea or the symmetrical networks found within the wings of insects; and contemporary scientific areas of study, such as genetic structures and chaos theory.
I am interested in using open-ended systems, primitive mark-making and chance operations (akin to Arp and other Dadaist and Surrealist artists) to transcend the banal and create an unpredictable universe of meditative energy and childlike wonder. Confining myself within the limits of scribbling, tracing and a strict creative structure, I hope to find the gesture, sincerity and simplicity of the sublime emerging between the lines.
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