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Molly Norris Curtis
"Something Borrowed"
January 14th to February 8th
Gallery 63 Eleven welcomes for her first one woman show with
the gallery, Molly Norris Curtis with a show entitled,
"Something Borrowed". Please join us for the artists'
reception, Saturday January 14th from 6:00to 10pm.
The artists will be in the gallery Satuday January 28th
Molly Norris Curtis
acrylic on canvas
2005
Artist Statement
My American sixties childhood was a loud colored, pre-jogging age filled with cocktail parties, night lit swimming pools, curvaceous women and seatbelt free drives - along with various and sundry Cold War terrors.
As a child, the Cold War translated into a sense that anything endearing and lovely could, at any moment, be gone in a (literal) flash. These feelings shaped my psyche into a dumbbell, weighted by ecstasy and humor on one end and maintenance doom on the other.
Molly Norris Curtis
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A way to balance was to cruise toward the imaginary, to an inner world where I was in control of what to create and destroy; making art became a place where life was not under the control of abstract forces like government and fate.
Molly Norris Curtis
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Partly, this exhibit entertains my obsessions with the stylization of nature - it's so much prettier that way! - which includes creating works where nature and culture might melt into one another like horny teenagers.
I also adore packages, labels, fonts and words - my father owned a packaging company for a while; labels say so much about the four-way intersection of aesthetics, intellect, emotion and commerce. (No longer can we ride seatbelt free through that intersection - "Click it or ticket.")
Plus, I am mad for the work of Stewart Davis - aren't you?
Molly Norris Curtis
Valentine
2005
'Your words used your way will generate your meanings,' wrote poet Richard Hugo In The Triggering Town. As visual artists our images, techniques (or lack thereof), content and context used our way can generate our own meanings. Meanings that I pray, in my case, translate and entertain.
Molly Norris Curtis
2005
Vist the web site of Molly Norris Curtis
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