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Artist
Portfolio |
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Nine Tables with Leaves Click image to view enlargement. |
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Black Leaf Scrolls black gesso, graphite on brown paper Click image to view enlargement. |
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Pine Needles each approx. 10"w x 24"h
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In one way or another all my work is about language. There are stories that want to be told, and many ways to tell them. The artwork takes various forms as each story creates its own vocabulary of images. I am conscious of working in the common ground that art and language occupy as acts of communication, an awareness that is reflected in my artworks in form as well as concept. Drawings are often arranged in sequences that mimic the flow of text on a page or a scroll. Images that begin as representations of natural objects can evolve into calligraphic marks. An array of seemingly random objects appears somehow to evoke narrative. The images above are from The Artist as Archaeologist, a recent installation in which I assumed the role of an archaeologist, engaging in activities common to artists and archaeologists: accumulating and preserving shards and fragments, documenting and organizing, repairing and assembling. The story that emerged integrated the scientist's task of finding meaning in random objects and incomplete evidence with the artist's impulse to imagine alternative possibilities, to conceive and build something new and beautiful from whatever materials are at hand. Additional images can be seen on my website www.shielahale.com.
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Resume |
| Education: 1993 1984 1961 - 1964 Selected Exhibitions: 2006 The Artist as Archaeologist Silvermine Guild Arts Center New Canaan CT 2005 – 2006 The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains
NY 2005 2004 Origins, Originality Assemblage, Collage & Construction 2002 - 2003 2001 1994 1984-1985
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Copyright: The Studio 2008