And now for something completely different . . .
Hello Folks,
As I scurry to get ready for my upcoming solo show at the 440 Gallery, it suddenly occurred to me that I could share my excitement here! I think of Yoga and Art NYC as a place for YOU. I try to share all things yoga and art in order to spread the love. I truly believe in the healing power of yoga and art! What I realized today is that my new work is part of the journey I aim to share. I am really pleased with the results of my latest efforts. If you are in NYC please come to 440 and help me celebrate this Friday, May 9, from 6-9pm. If you can’t make it to the show (it will be up through June 8) I invite you to take a look at my art website. Although I feel that art is best observed by the viewer without being told what to see, I will include my artist’s statement and a sneak preview of the show below. Enjoy!
Namaste,
Karen
Chesire Clive, 22″ X 30″, 2014
I like my art pared down to its essence, while simultaneously containing everything. My subject is human nature. Physicality, growth and connections are my vocabulary. My method is to both combine and reduce. In each piece, shape, form and color are distilled until a singular image emerges from the tension between the found and the deliberate.
Often in my sculpture, a found object is combined with sculpture material creating an evocative form. Layering color and texture consolidate each piece until its shape becomes iconic, nearly symbolic. My work is complete when its disparities take on new life and its ambiguities allow many associations and references to surface for each viewer.
I think the life of my work lies in its ability to be insistently itself. In spite of the spectrum of ideas and sizes, human-scaled marks and manipulations unify my process. You can feel a person’s involvement in each construction. In a sense, all of my work is self-portraiture, but I hope that my autobiographical musings resonate beyond my own navel-gazing. I came to this approach through years of lovingly exploring both art materials and the condition of ambiguity. Listening to material and form speak for themselves is very powerful language for me. In pursuit of other venues to hear this language, I began to study and practice yoga. Yoga, literally “union” has led me to understand that one’s ability to lightly hold contradictions–physically, emotionally and spiritually–is at the heart of graceful living. The balance I seek in life is the balance I am also hoping to strike as an artist. My sculpture is both heavy and very light; drawings are bold and delicate; paintings are fertile and austere. These physical contradictions create containers for expansive feelings and familiar impressions, sometimes precarious, often disconcerting, and always rich.
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