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Kathryn Wiley artist statement: I started drawing and painting as a young woman in Paris a number of years ago, and haven't stopped since. My focus for many years was the landscape in oils, always painted on location. The November 2007 Foundry Gallery show "Transition" includes a number of landscapes of the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Delaware shore, as well as some works done on a recent trip to the Maine coast. A long- time goal has been to abstract the landscape, which I thought could happen organically, as a part of the development and evolution of the work. That wasn't happening, so in 2006 I started studying abstract painting, and found that colorful new compositions seemed to rise remixed from the stored images of a lifetime in a largely intuitive way. One series of the abstract paintings in the "Transition" show have a circular motif, in which the viewer seems to be looking through an obstructed lens at a bright, or ominous, scene or future beyond. Despite calling this show a transition from representational to abstract painting, I plan to continue working in both idioms.
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