Saturday, March 21, 2009
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About Me
- Donna Sue Gamble
- Artist Statement: My work primarily deals with concepts that are used to guide and control, manipulate and exploit gestures that are aesthetically driven. These paintings are a result of critical assessments and analytical ideas formed from the study of remnants that are utilized in final compositions. Not unlike Andy Warhol, who drank Campbell’s soup at lunch everyday for twenty years and started conceptualizing the banality of the product which resulted in the work, “Soup Can’ (1961-62), I too faced a repeated occurrence that most painters deal with at the end of every painting session: the residue of paint on the palette. (Specifically, I use palette paper.) After a year of collecting and studying the used paper, I cut out potential compositions that were relevant to my ideas of the mark that I developed from years of experience as a painter; this was done in order to reinvent and recycle a mark made without intent or purpose of exploitation. My earlier grad school paintings (beginning in 2006) can be seen at: Donnasuegamble-paintings.blogspot.com Thank you for your time- Donna Sue Gamble
