Artist Statement
Kathryn Arnold c2021

My work contains two intertwining veins. One is filled with large, colorful oils on canvas. The other are my drawings which are black and white mixed media works on paper. Both display the density and layered mark-making that points to my process and content.

The work is a result of intuitive nonobjective processes and contains my search for visual magic. The sense of touch and chaotic energy of color and marks play an important role in building up layers that function to create an encompassing, enveloping field and bewildering space. Sometimes there is an introduction of a grid-like form with recognizable imagery playing upon it. These become reference points and their intrinsic relating form poetry, a type of interplay between subjective and objective reality.

from Ginsberg Howl ...and who therefore ran through the icy streets obsessed witha sudden flash of the alchemy...

PAINTINGS
marks
kinetic sensation
chaotic energy
a building
a destruction
emotional
complex
bewildering spaces
autobiographical references
major dreams
minor non-dreams

Materials
oil
canvas
composition leaf
gouache
ink
watercolor
acrylic
charcoal
conte
soft pastels
oil pastels
pencil
polymer medium
spray paint
enamel
varnishes
rice papers
newspapers
collage
Arches hot-pressed 100 rag, acid free paper

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