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STATEMENT OF WORK
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is informed by memories of the banal, yet magnificent commonplace moments and objects from everyday life. I find a visual narrative in disparate objects randomly left behind and the haphazard compositions created by activity and time.
Although my paintings are based in abstraction, the shapes I uncover contain aspects of the source material. Some things I reference are branches, vessels, animals, and furniture; to name a few. Through a lyrical never quite ending open space, a story unfolds with a conscious disregard of the impressions left behind. My focus is on the familiar repeated motifs in these figurative abstractions.
These disparate elements in incidental relationship, and the patina that emerges within each layer, creates a unique history. The moment captured just is, it could continue, or not. I am always aware of my pictorial space and where the players sit in it and I like their scale to tease.
I build up and take apart the surface slowly and deliberately, with no clear path or end point. The remnants of failed unresolved layers activate the ground where my subjects live. I recognize these previous failures as an important aspect of telling the final story. By activating the edges, what is not there is just as important as what is. Recycling organic shapes and gestural lines create a familiar language.
Mimi Young
2022