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Kathelene Engrid Gallowayclick image to enlarge
The last two years have been set apart from the rest of my life with a clarity of perception that came to me through feeling the profound loss and the finality of the death of one close to my heart. We cared so deeply for one another that at separation my loss resounded broadly and deeply through my life and work. Several ideas and concepts, in which I had much invested, and that were at the core of importance for me lost their significance all together. The death of my Mom, Engelina Ingrid Galloway left me feeling blinded, numb and floundering in my studio practice. The importance I felt for the science and beauty of my previous works slipped away suddenly, unexpectedly, and completely. In the studio faced with the need to work I started anew within the space I had been thrust. My artistic responses were nostalgic and idealized as I worked through a deluge of memory but this is not the place where I want my art to be. Nostalgia is a vision of a past cleaned up by the psyche to make looking back more acceptable to the sensibilities. I have always seen myself as an artist that draws. I rely on seeing, mark making, and intuition as I traverse life and art. These drawings stand at the trailhead of my process to re-inventing myself as an artist. In these drawings I am beginning with my most basic skill set and allowing my work to emerge through the practice and activity of drawing. These works were first conceived as individual sheets and were recombined several times before I agreed to these arrangements and relationships. My hope is that this body of work communicates through an embodied anxious waiting inside a non-linear moment. I want the work to resound with a vibration and urgency of one who has had their images brutally ripped away. My attempts to riddle the work with these anxieties translated into heavy layers of graphite rubbed and worked onto the surface of the paper and gesso with mark making so dense and obsessive that it becomes a visually continuous surface. The work avoids narrative. Grieving activity through a mantra of physical re-re iterations of stroke. This work is not about “story.” It is an attempt to clear my pallet and provide a space from which I can renovate the vision for my work. This work was made possible in part by: The Faculty Scholars Program, Eastern Oregon University
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