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September 9th thru October 11th, 2006
Artists' reception, Saturday September 9th, from 6:00 to 10pm
Gallery 63 Eleven is proud to welcome back to the gallery in her second one woman show Elizabeth Aurich with New Works.
Please join us for the artists' reception and the Ballard Artwalk.
The artist will be in the gallery on Saturday September 30th from 12-5pm
and on Saturday October 7th from 11-5pm.
Elizabeth Aurich Artists Statement
I work in a visual manner, which applies an automatic process that is completely subjective. I believe in freedom to exploit visual language completely when I paint, and avoid any specific language that is not visual or that is secondary to a painting's life. The color, form and movement of each piece results from the placement among other compositions, which I arrange and re arrange as I work on them in my studio. This is not to say that I do not work from life, in fact I think that it is critical for one to observe and express things visually by cultivating language that exists both internally and externally. It is a matter of always looking at the paintings and using instinct and intuition for each mark or area that I may develop. I am not entirely like a DeKooning, nor a Pollock- and not a pure abstract painter in the sense of Mondrian- however I would say that I relate strongly to painters like Bonnard, Robert C. Jones, Joan Mitchell & Bill Ivey... and poetics of paint and space which derive from traditions of the twentieth century. I paint what I want to see - not in the sense of a subject. There is always a sense of play involved and openness to associations that may remain or be rejected as the object comes into existence. At times, I am reminded of the experience that I had with figure skating and dance. That is to say a real experience of what the marks and movements may suggest, reveal or not as far as form and feeling are concerned. It is a process, by which an object of consciousness is made which at its core is of imagination. It is convincing by virtue of its ability to conform and break visual rules and clichés that pervade our present narcissistic culture and relinquish a diminished human capacity of sorts. Beyond this I would only say that I do not take the great traditions of visual art for granted. I am only further impressed with the fact that, while it has all been done before and perhaps more poignant when seen for the first time, one may always have a new perspective. As artists, we forever plumb our depths and bear the fruits of our labors to satisfy ourselves and assert what it is to be alive with human perception and consciousness. Thank you, I couldn't have done it without you!
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