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Artist Exhibitions:
2010 Artworks, Kenosha WI
2009 Wisconsin Arts Board
Gallery, Madison, WI
Two-person Show
Artworks, Kenosha, WI
Jurors Choice Award
Artsite, Racine, WI
2008 RAM's Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Art, WI
716 Fine Art, Racine, WI
Solo Show
2007 Anderson Art Center,
Kenosha, WI Solo Show
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
AT&T, Lilse, IL, USA
Burington Railroad, IL, USA
Clarkwood Limited, Chicago,
IL, USA
Gary-Wheaton Bank, Wheaton,
IL, USA...
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Commissions:
Umaito Moto Restaurant,
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Hob Nob Restaurant, Kenosha,
WI, USA
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Artist Statement for Maureen Fritchen
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The paintings begin with no preconceived plan. Inspiration can derive from a color, a texture, or some seemingly insignificant remnant of nature, but the urge to create always follows. The more I understand this compulsion, act on new impulses and detach myself from the end results, new ideas surface and the act becomes the art.
The paintings begin by building multiple layers on the surface. Starting with a mixture of gesso and bits of decomposed leaves, dust and hair, paint is layered, the surface manipulated, and sanded back or scratched to reveal its buried history. It is during this stage of experimentation that the painting finds its direction and I proceed intuitively. Although the under painting is generally spontaneous and chaotic the resolved paintings are very controlled, simplified and hushed enviroments. As in nature, the patient observer is rewarded a glimpse of its complexities.
My hope is the viewer will stop and contemplate the natural world around us, both seen and unseen, and foster greater conservation, and treat our natural world with the sacredness it deserves.
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