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About my recent drawings-

My new drawings on acetate are part of a group that I began in the Spring of 2008.

The drawings on sheet acetate are part of a group I began doing in 2008. Using ink marker pens and white-out correction fluid pens, I am drawing them directly on clear acetate sheets. On the acetate the ink markers glide and can be worked with great speed. The correction fluid adds a slight texture upon the surface of the acetate. The drawing results in a work that is very spontaneous and immediate. Juxtaposing masses of lines on a surface produces an unpredictable result at times through the act of drawing. Sometimes I feel like my works grow like garden plants in that I feel like I just put together the substances and tending to what it needs; what grows out of it has its own life. Some of these works are on the Retitle.com site that you can link to below.

Regarding the works from 2006 to 2008: I developed each of the paintings over several months or more in order to take my work to a new place for me. The paintings are layered and worked over. Areas and layers of the painting are scratched back with razor blades, simultaneously revealing layers of paint below the final layer and creating drawn-into areas within the painting.

I find inspiration for my artworks from both visual and audio stimuli. Digitized, abstract and animated music videos, music and movies are stimuli. I frequently listen to music to get myself working. Animation and the animated form inspire my method of drawing at times. Popular, fictional and scientific ideas motivate me in making my works too. My interest in science journalism and its description of explanations of the structure of the universe in current astronomy articles has inspired my titles for some of my drawings. I also have a deep interest in the art works of many cultures and believe my works reflect and have roots in these works too.

"Fatal attraction," a title for one of my drawings, is now a scientist’s term for an event in outer space, besides its usual meaning. It refers to a proto-galactic collision occurence in outer space. Two galaxies fall into each other and they end up destroying each other. The ultimate result is a birth though; millions of new galaxies form.

Literature is also a source for me. I have read of a Chinese idea about the surface of a rock, ‘ . . . the surface is not considered an absolute boundary but a transition from one state of energy to another state . . . ’ This is something I like to reflect upon. States of energy, both human and scientific, interest me.

Some of the titles for the paintings from 2006 to 2008 are inspired by names of Asian places that I visited on a trip last year to China. I painted most of the works in my selection of images before I went to Beijing, but during a time of anticipating and planning the trip. After the visit I named the paintings with titles that reflect the sensibilities I found attractive there that somehow seemed meant for each painting I had done.

The figurative, the gestural, the landscape, and human understanding of it, are emphasized in my work. I want to refer the viewer to themes of science fiction and science, and to formal and expressive drawing issues.

States of energy, states of human contemplation and the visual world are themes and subjects in my work. I hope to express and share these energies.

-Alice-


				Alice Whealin Statement about some recent works



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		About my recent drawings- My new drawings on acetate are part of a group that I began in the Spring of 2008. The drawings on sheet acetate are part of a group I began doing in 2008. Using ink marker pens and white-out correction fluid pens, I am drawing them directly on clear acetate sheets. On the acetate the ink markers glide and can be worked with great speed. The correction fluid adds a slight texture upon the surface of the acetate. The drawing results in a work that is very spontaneous and immediate. Juxtaposing masses of lines on a surface produces an unpredictable result at times through the act of drawing. Sometimes I feel like my works grow like garden plants in that I feel like I just put together the substances and tending to what it needs; what grows out of it has its own life. Some of these works are on the Retitle.com site that you can link to below. Regarding the works from 2006 to 2008: I developed each of the paintings over several months or more in order to take my work to a new place for me. The paintings are layered and worked over. Areas and layers of the painting are scratched back with razor blades, simultaneously revealing layers of paint below the final layer and creating drawn-into areas within the painting. I find inspiration for my artworks from both visual and audio stimuli. Digitized, abstract and animated music videos, music and movies are stimuli. I frequently listen to music to get myself working. Animation and the animated form inspire my method of drawing at times. Popular, fictional and scientific ideas motivate me in making my works too. My interest in science journalism and its description of explanations of the structure of the universe in current astronomy articles has inspired my titles for some of my drawings. I also have a deep interest in the art works of many cultures and believe my works reflect and have roots in these works too. "Fatal attraction," a title for one of my drawings, is now a scientist’s term for an event in outer space, besides its usual meaning. It refers to a proto-galactic collision occurence in outer space. Two galaxies fall into each other and they end up destroying each other. The ultimate result is a birth though; millions of new galaxies form. Literature is also a source for me. I have read of a Chinese idea about the surface of a rock, ‘ . . . the surface is not considered an absolute boundary but a transition from one state of energy to another state . . . ’ This is something I like to reflect upon. States of energy, both human and scientific, interest me. Some of the titles for the paintings from 2006 to 2008 are inspired by names of Asian places that I visited on a trip last year to China. I painted most of the works in my selection of images before I went to Beijing, but during a time of anticipating and planning the trip. After the visit I named the paintings with titles that reflect the sensibilities I found attractive there that somehow seemed meant for each painting I had done. The figurative, the gestural, the landscape, and human understanding of it, are emphasized in my work. I want to refer the viewer to themes of science fiction and science, and to formal and expressive drawing issues. States of energy, states of human contemplation and the visual world are themes and subjects in my work. I hope to express and share these energies. -Alice-







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