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Artist Exhibitions:
Delaware Center for the
Contemporary Arts, Annual
Juried Members Exhibition 2003
(Juror: George Ciscle), and
2001 (Juror: Judd Tully of
NYC), Wilmington, Delaware,
USA
Center for the Creative Arts,
Annual Juried Regional
Exhibitions, Hockessin,
Delaware, USA, 1997-2000
Center for the Creative Arts,
Juried and Member Exhibitions,
Hockessin, Delaware, USA, ...
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Artist Statement for Nancy Doyle
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My website: http://www.ndoylefineart.com
I received a B.S. degree in Art Education from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1969, and my M.F.A. degree in Painting from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania in 1975. I began drawing and painting at 10 years of age, and have been doing it now for over 40 years. My work has gone through a long evolution, from my student days through my joys and my difficulties, to my adult days.
My work is concerned with two major areas: formal concerns, such as color, space, composition and movement; and "spiritual" concerns - not religious, more metaphysical. To me, painting is about the mystery, preciousness, delicacy and wonder of life: the universe, us, how we got here, what we do here, what we feel here, where we are going. I'm interested in a poetic, transcendent, and generous and expansive expression, which is like singing or music, with power and conviction, which says, "I am here," and its spirit soars. It is also an expression of gentle irony and disillusioned affection, juxtapositions of real and simulated, natural and manmade, sublime and ridiculous, sacred and mundane. I believe now that my need to express my vision comes from my celtic genetic memory - when I heard our ancient music for the first time, I knew in the deepest part of my being that this was who I was, and have always been, though I didn't come to know it until I was almost 50 years old. This ancient music and culture is the sound of my art - tough, joyful, tender, fierce, exuberant, poetic, tragic, ironic, resilient, delicate, primitive, gentle, powerful, vital. I've also had many artistic influences, from Monet, Cezanne and Van Gogh to Bonnard, Morisot, Persian miniatures, much "primitive" art, Rauschenberg, cubism, Pop art, early Guston, Arshile Gorky, Giacometti paintings, and many more, some not as well-known. Off and on for about 25 years, I have done vertical still lifes of contemporary commercial packaging and other domestic objects; I feel these still lifes give me the greatest possibility for poetic juxtapositions and self-expression, from media images that speak to me, to shells, birds, or images of the universe (literally everything is possible in the still life!). The shapes lend themselves to a geometric composition, more structural than organic, and the colors are primary, bright, with striking color relationships. These paintings give me a chance to express my view of the world, from microcosm to macrocosm - there are literally infinite possibilities for meaning, metaphor, and even social commentary, however oblique. I want to have an elevated viewpoint - universal, eternal, rather than temporal, of this world; but I like using the contemporary advertising objects to express this vision - ironic contrast. Still life painting has a tradition of serenity and domesticity; I like the idea of imbuing it with surprise and energy, and unexpected juxtapositions - which seem perfectly at home to me - connections of shape, color, and expression, in a contemplative, lyrical fashion.
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