© 2011 Marilyn Kirsch
About my Painting
My painting is somewhere between abstract and non-objective.
There seem to be recognizable images in my work, but they are elusive.
They are closer to apparitions than to real objects or landscapes.
My imagery lacks boundaries and hovers between possibilities.
This deliberate ambiguity is a way of exploring how meaning can be
found where it was not intended. Random marks of paint may seem
to be images of real things, like finding pictures in the clouds.
I utilize both a control of the medium and an allowance for the
accidental. Shifts of the image occur during the painting process and
become part of the finished piece. The completed painting is my response
to the unsettling relationship between random acts and carefully planned
decisions. Also, with each work, I try to balance the physical properties
of the materials used and the metaphorical content of the image.
About my Photography
I have always taken photographs, but it has been over the last three
years that I have become serious about my photography. It is now an
integral part of my work as an artist.
My photography possesses a common theme which is my fascination
with seeing the world indirectly. The photographs are observations from
a
slightly removed point of view. They are either reflections or shot
through a filter of some kind, such as plastic curtains or scratched
windows. They show reality through the surfaces of the city.
Sometimes I work with single images but I often combine two separate
shots to make photo-collages when I feel it works better for what
I want to say.
Marilyn Kirsch, July 2011
