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After a hiatus, I am again working on my “Class Photo Series.” This series began back in 1983, when I attended my husband’s 20th high school reunion. I was intrigued by the exaggerated poses, hairdos, and draped shoulders of the women in his 1963 year book photos. These photos told such a story of the people and the time, both individually and collectively. To date I have painted over 80 CPS paintings + monotypes, pastels & drawings. As I was editing these images for my website, my interest in the series was rekindled. I began thinking about them as portraits of inner emotional life rather than exterior likenesses.
My Beach Series now includes figures in the surf. I enjoy finding figurative gesture in paint. These figures relate energetically with my past work in the Swimmer and Women Shopping Series. Painting a moving figure in this wet environment pushes it into abstraction. I like working on that thin line between reality & abstraction. I am searching there for an unedited glimpse into the human condition. Presently I am working in both of these series. My Artist-in-Residency this summer in Portugal might inspire new images. Mine is a process of paint application and removal from which visual surprises emerge. My paintings evolve from the fluid stream of my conscious and subconscious mind. The viewer is free to enjoy the surface light, color and movement or go deeper. Marshall CrossmanArtist’s Statement June, 2008 |
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