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| My work in recent years has focused
on painting - a fascination solidified with a
large, mixed-media
installation.
Even its three-dimensional elements functioned as marks and lines,
helping to create
what essentially functioned as one large painting. Curious about how
I would feel working less sculpturally, I have discovered painting
is a rugged course with tests of its own. |
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| I work mostly on
wood, using alkyd oil paints. But I also incorporate glass into some
of my work, because of my love for its transparency and luminosity.
Layering and sanding, carving into or painting over; to me, every
moment
is creatively satisfying. |
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| As in my life,
my work probes the ways in which less can be more.
I
ask the questions I ask in life: where should I pause, and where should
I stop? |
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| For me, the process of answering is intuitive,
dependant on my mood and my feelings in the moment. These determine
my line, its placement and its color. I still approach painting from
a sculptural perspective; I am always "building" a
piece. But throughout my work, composition is my anchor, that
underlying element on which I am concentrating. |
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| • Whitney E. Nye |
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