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Dodie in Meditation with Jim Finley and Monks

Dimensions: 24 ¼” x 34 ¼”
Medium: Giclee print from original acrylic and oil on linen

Buster Walking Down the Stairs of Grandma’s House

Dimensions: 46” x 33 ¼”
Medium: Giclee print from original acrylic and oil on linen

Dodie with Guru

Dimensions: 46” x 33 ¼”
Medium: Giclee print

Artist Statement

My work is about personal fairy-tales and myths, the story of a Cinderella for example, with a wicked stepmother, a selfish father and a little brother. As a person, my life takes place within time, but my work takes place outside of a given time and sometimes resembles the characters in children’s picture books.

For example, in the piece “Dodie in Meditation with Jim Finley and Monks” I feature the character of Dodie who has a unique history all her own. Dodie is named after my mother Dorothy who died in 1954 when I was a little girl of six. Dodie began as a character in 1980 in a series of paintings, drawing, and etchings I did about my grandmother’s house.  She emerged out of a dresser in the bedroom.  Over the years she has become a woman with scrambled egg hair and various odd behaviors who frequently loses her head.

In the painting “Buster Walking Down the Stairs of Grandma’s House” I use the staircase of my grandmother’s house as a symbol of mortality. I began painting the staircase also in the series about my grandmother. My grandmother had very crippling arthritis and held onto both banisters lifting herself up the stairs while I skipped up them two at a time. In this painting my brother Jonathan who died in 2010 is coming down the stairs to meet me.

“Dodie with Guru and Buster and Ann” depicts the imaginary childhood of my brother and me with two peculiar parents: Dodie a made up mother and Erich a yoga teacher of mine who a began to study with in my late forties. Due to space I am not sure there will be room for this picture in the exhibition, but I chose it because it includes these fairy-tale images that brings me the the feeling of enchantment.

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