Artist Statement
The nature of painting drives the meaning of my work. The interplay between the physical, sensual activity of painting and the necessary intellectual and formal decisions which present themselves creates an ongoing dialogue within each work and among the works themselves.
In my daily studio practice I attempt to strike a balance between painterly guts and the pared down elegance of formalism. The inherent tension between these two elements is full of mystery and metaphor, and pushes me forward, challenging me to create work which has a sense of inevitability about it and which conveys a sense of oneness with the viewer.
As a non-serial abstract painter, my work can result in strikingly different moods and meanings, with each painting becoming an entire story, or world unto itself.
I am attempting to coax poetry from paint, to transform my materials into metaphor.
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The nature of painting drives the meaning of my work. The interplay between the physical, sensual activity of painting and the necessary intellectual and formal decisions which present themselves creates an ongoing dialogue within each work and among the works themselves.
In my daily studio practice I attempt to strike a balance between painterly guts and the pared down elegance of formalism. The inherent tension between these two elements is full of mystery and metaphor, and pushes me forward, challenging me to create work which has a sense of inevitability about it and which conveys a sense of oneness with the viewer.
As a non-serial abstract painter, my work can result in strikingly different moods and meanings, with each painting becoming an entire story, or world unto itself.
I am attempting to coax poetry from paint, to transform my materials into metaphor.
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resume`
© 2011 Betty Merken Studios. All Rights Reserved.
bettystudio@earthlink.net
Betty Merken