Pauline Conley

Artist Statment

As a painter I am drawn to the power of the non-representational.  In recent years, however, my images have begun to relax into a sort of representation of the imagined.  First, the horizon found its way into my work – the sight line which is the friction point between the elements, and between the known and the unknown.  It's a powerful cultural, proprioceptive, and visual reference point upon which the metaphor of landscape hangs.

The horizon eventually became a line in the air, and this line evokes the clothesline, the jet stream, mapped domains, the ubiquitous bird on a wire.  These are the grid lines of our lives – the divisions of space that are as familiar and comforting as the horizon.  

In the very recent past (January 2011 onwards) a deconstruction of the motifs I have been working with has taken hold. My focus has shifted to the grids and patterns themselves as evocative montages of every day life - both routine and divine.

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-Pauline