Solo Exhibition Opens Memorial Day Weekend, plant Magic dust

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Becoming Bikini, photograph, 2014 by Dawn Breeze

April 17, 2014

For immediate release

ARTspace reopens with plant Magic dust, solo show by Dawn Breeze

In its new venue  ARTsapce is pleased to announce plant Magic dust, a solo exhibition of work by Dawn Breeze, opening May 24^th, 2014.  The gallery is now located at 71 Palatine Road in Germantown.

The body of work exhibited in plant Magic dust demonstrates Breeze’s continual fascination with interwoven connections of thought, time, place, transformation and materials as subject.  Using materials such as plastic, cloth, dirt and plants, Breeze embraces the importance of the materials she is using, and considers their story as well.  This reciprocal relationship to materials is key to Breeze’s work as a Process Artist. She might consciously choose the materials she is working with, but the relationship with them evolves as she plays with and nurtures them. Breeze encourages the materials to tell their story.  “…I want to ask it: are you paint, are you minerals, are you flowers, are you death, are you life, are you a hot day in Africa, how can I appreciate and honor you?”

Curated by Sarah Bachelier the exhibition title plant Magic dust was chosen as homage to the poem with the same title written by E.E. Cummings.

plant Magic Dust will open on Saturday, May 24^th and run to June 15^th.  A reception will be held on the 24^th  from 5-7.

ARTspace is located at 71 Palatine Road, No 7, Germantown, NY 12526.

Hours are Saturday from 11-5  and Sunday 11-3.

ARTspace is a project of Germantown Economic Development and its mission remains “to establish a forum for the many expressions called art and to expand the visibility of Germantown as a place to do business, to live and to visit. Over 50 artists from Germantown and the surrounding area were shown in the Main Street gallery.

For questions or more information email artspace@gtel.net

Abstract Painting w/Fabric & Hand Made Paper

 

Untitled 

16" x 22" (I think, perhaps bigger??)

Acrylic, Graphite, Handmade Linen Paper, Muslin, Pastel

I am amazed by the amount of time and effort it is taking me to make a small painting that appears so simple. I do think the scale is difficult being smallish, it feels like being inside a pen and your trying to get full expansion of your wings, but the walls keep your breath short. I wonder are they all going to take this long, or need so much work?  I'm not sure if its that I havn't been painting in so long or that something is trying to emerge...or I don't know?  I also think that there is something in the way I create that demands learning all over again with every single painting.  I don't have a routine or a "go to bag of tricks" or a theme-like portraits. Its funny because a friend and painter said to me "you paint abstract so it must be so much easier with so much freedom" but I disagree or it depends on how you define easy?  Easy yes because I paint freely but its very difficult to go forward without knowing where your going and when your ending vs. a plotted out painting.  Maybe one day each of these paintings will become a part of the "formula" and it will be easy to paint....maybe?
 By the way if you havn't seen the Gerhard Richter movie you should, he is an inspiration!