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Artist Exhibitions:
MAGGY ASTON
Address P.O. Box 265,
Greensboro, PA 15338
Telephone (724) 943-4944
email
riverrunbooks@windstream.net
webpage:
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios
/a/aston
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Drawings
and Constructions, Digging
Pitt Gallery
2005 Prints and
Paintings, Digging Pitt
Gallery
2002 Painted
Monotypes, Benedum Gallery,
Waynesburg, PA
1998
Paintings...
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Artist Galleries:
Riverrun Books and Prints,
Greensboro, PA 15338
Digging Pitt Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA, 412-605-0450
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Collections:
Public Collections
Butler Museum of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV
California University of
Pennnsylvania, California, PA
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris,
France
Private Collections
John Morris, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Fullerton, Arlington,
VA
Larry Hall, Washington, PA
Cynthia Lamb, Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas and Joan Richards,
Minneapolis, MN...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Maggy Aston
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My recent work involves connections between art, science, nature, and technology. Much of the work is drawn from observation, though I also use images from the history of science and art as literary or symbolic references. Working mostly with plant and animal forms, I approach my subject in the spirit of a naturalist, through research, reading, drawing, and fieldwork, which includes wanderings in woods, fields, and beaches in search of interesting forms and phenonmena. The drawing studies often follow the conventions of scientific illustration, where full chiaroscuro renderings are juxtaposed with schematic diagrams, cross-sections, and detailed enlargements. Sooner or later, however, scientific objectivity is abandoned in the interest of art-making, and the image is transformed or abstracted.
Some of these pictures have been repainted many times. Most did not evolve steadily from start to finish, but are instead a series of observations and erasures performed at intervals over a period of months or years. The act of erasure, and the residual images produced by many changes, attempt to create a passage through the time and space of the picture which suggests the ephemeral quality of natural forms. Vaporous states, transitions from solid to liquid, and the accumulation and dispersion of particles, are impressions I try to convey through manipulations of paint and ink.
In the painted monotypes, a plexiglass sheet is rolled with ink, and surface variations are produced where layers of viscous ink resist the dryer ink layers rolled on top. Eventually, an image, or a suggestion of an image, emerges from the ink, and the plate is printed. A central motif is then drawn or painted on the printed paper.
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