My Art

My paintings are intuitive. They are about color, texture, and light and dark.
One day after finishing one of my abstracts,

I took my camera and moved it around the painting; stopping only when I saw something so beautiful or so arresting that I had to have a record of it.
I couldn’t wait to see what the pictures looked like on my computer’s screen.
Some were disappointing,
While others were so perfectly imperfectly perfect, that they would take my breath away.
Those were the ones I decided to enlarge.
First on canvas mounted the same as the painting from which it came.
Then with a macro Lens and a tripod. I reexamined the same painting, though now altered by having applied red washes to its surface.
Working with natural light, I looked through the lens again.

I saw everything so clearly, in the smallest amount of space.

Again I couldn’t wait to see them enlarged and like the first time some were not what I thought they would be, while others, were for me amazingly beautiful.

Again I enlarged the photographs, only this time to enhance the clearest possible details I chose light boxes to show these details; which for me are what is beautiful.

I ask myself
What was the moment the art was made?
Was it as a painting?
or was it as detail recorded as a photograph

I have always been an artist. In my songs and in my performance of them I shared my work. Now I am an artist working differently.
I paint!
I had been painting lifelike portraits of my friends, Yet the pull that keeps getting stronger is to deepen in to my abstract paintings. and

It feels like the whole thing turned upside down on its head.
I love that it is the details of my paintings that matter.
They are the record of my painting.
in the end they are all that exists of the painting; the
Incarnations my details took.
Because the original painting has been altered beyond recognition having been painted on over and over again.

But I have always believed that whatever it was I thought was great,
Was found in the details.

Currently at the LA Art House!

I’m so excited for Margie Perenchio’s art exhibit, Timeless Realism,  going on through July 24th, at the LA Art House. It’s an added plus that the exhibit benefits the Women’s Endowment, which funds the research of molecular solutions to early detection and treatment of women’s cancers.