Art
Persephone - Mabrie Jeanne Ormes '68
- Item Number
- 121
Item Description
Mabrie Jeanne Ormes '68
Persephone, 2013
signed and framed
mixed media drawing
14'' x 19''
" My concept for Persephone and related works, some of which can be seen on James Snidle Fine Arts' website, is that humans and plants are one natural world. Here is an exerpt from my artist's statement for this body of work:
The drawing expresses something poetic about the human relationship to nature. The visual congruences allude to deeper ones. The joining of arm to shoulder and of leaf vein to stem are similar. Nature makes a joint that moves, has nuance and quivers with energy. Like the leaves on a tree, our aliveness is replete with water, air, and heat. Drawn on leaf-thin paper, these nudes are stains left by fragile lives as they fall through Time.
" I have been self-supporting as a full time fine artist for 25 years. My major at Bennington was in Literature and critical writing, which has come in very handy because of all the thinking and writing that being a visual artist entails!
My journey has been an adventure in visual media: including watercolor, pastel, oil paint, tempera, etching, lithography, and photography! These days my main focus is color, which I explore in oil painted plein aire work and in what I call the 'leaf papers'. This is a craft I invented to meet the challenge of the economic downturn.
Inspired by the stains leaves make on the sidewalk in the Fall, the repetitive nature of the craft offers myriad opportunities to experiment with color. My gleanings from practice in the craft studio go back to the fine arts studio. 'Persephone' is an example of this cross-fertilization."
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