When asked why she paints abstractly, Judy describes that it is because she loves the tools of paints, pencils, and crayons. Still the same child that stood in awe before an oil painting, Judy decided that was how she wanted to spend her life... Learning how to use those materials to paint while celebrating the freedom that emerges when combining non-representational lines and colors.
Behind the Scenes :: Paintings by Tanner Lind
Tanner begins his paintings by defining parameters that will guide his process. These parameters contain a rough order of operations, color palette, scale ratio, and a list of disruptions that are randomized. These disruptions create a level of unpredictability and a pattern of anticipation as response emerges. As Tanner describes, this allows him to alternate between intention and disruption until he decides that a painting is complete. Built one layer at a time, each focuses on a single color, method of mark making, or shape. Individual decisions compound and build upon one another, increasing in complexity. For Tanner, a painting really comes to light only when these decisions and disruptions coalesce into a composition that becomes more than the sum of its parts, and when his mind and materials come to rest at the same moment…
Behind the Scenes :: Collage by Elizabeth Arzani
While living abroad in Luxembourg, a small country with three main languages, Elizabeth describes that she relied on the way that design communicates using symbols, imagery, typography, and graphics. Beginning to utilize recycling as both a subject and a resource, collecting found advertisements from site specific places such as Paris, Vienna, Venice, Tel Aviv, and Copenhagen, she then used collage techniques to layer her findings with her own collection of paintings and prints. From there, Elizabeth concealed the work from herself by turning it upside down. While the collage was hidden from her view, she then cut and cropped new shapes that she used to assemble new designs. By creating what she refers to as a “blind collage,” Elizabeth withheld information from herself as a way to learn how to process living within the unknown.