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Michael Williamson “Alluvia Yellow” acrylic mixed media

Michael Williamson “Alluvia Yellow” acrylic mixed media

Speak Memory, is the title of an evocative memoir written by Vladimir Nabokov. It is a sensualist’s recollection of his early childhood through the distilled, self-aware perspective of the adult novelist.
It is through the lens of memory and feeling that these landscapes emerge. Although I might draw or photograph a place that is interesting to me as reference, these paintings and collages; their light, color, pattern and tactile surface are more about feeling, memory, dream, remembrance and forgetting.
Are these specific places?Yes. They existed, evolved in my mind as I painted them in the studio, and they exist as real places as works of art. Are they truthful? Again the answer is yes. They are as truthful as any experience distilled by circumstance, time, weather and selective memory. They are my fact and fiction
In the last two years I have been taking stock of older work, reconstituting older paintings, intaglio prints and the accompanying plates, drawings, photocopies and hand painted papers. These are constructed images. They are intentionally artificial, busy and full of movement.The paintings celebrate paint, surface, light and color in a straightforward way. I still really love painting so I’ve been moving in multiple directions…happily.

Skills

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January 19, 2020

Skills

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January 19, 2020