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Catalpa ink wash & charcoal 38x40 2011 - Integrating the figure and the natural form of the branch stripped from the catalpa tree by a storm.

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Comment by Resident Curator on August 17, 2013 at 9:32am

Thank you for responding and posting new work.  I like these new pieces very much.

Comment by Grace Benedict on August 16, 2013 at 10:18pm

Thank you very much for your comments.  Your conclusion acknowledges my attempt to visualize the spiritual encounter with varying degrees of emotional and psychological disconnect or harmony of each figure with a part of the natural world. I have used this combination of charcoal, colored pencil and ink wash for some time and find it very satisfying.

Comment by Resident Curator on August 14, 2013 at 4:50pm

Curator’s Comments:  

I’m intrigued by the affecting dissonance in these two male portraits (titled Benedict), which seem to combine classical charcoal and ink drawing with high chroma saturated pastel backgrounds. While you mention the integration of the figure with the catalpa branch in your image’s caption, I’m drawn to this work because I see a graphic separation between the formal elements, and the emotional and psychological split they conjure in their divide. Both the male figure and leaf are presented as idealized specimens, vaguely exotic in their juxtaposition with restricted localized color, as opposed to a formally academic, achromatic study.  I particularly like the more subtle things going on with color choice in these drawings.  The pale ochre tinting in the plants removes any trace of living greenery, but affords an organic relationship to the more intense blue background/sky. Neither interior nor exterior, I enjoy the more saturated vertical band of cerulean on the far left of the picture plane, and the lighter value on the right.  The male figure, while technically black, doesn’t have true color variation to connote brown-violet tonal subtleties in skin, but a smoky black with faintly radiating white lines, further suggesting an exotic or super-natural origin. While The Waiting Garden seems to be a more technical exploration of bright decorative color within a nature patterned motif, Solstice once again offers an extraordinary transition, or mystical encounter with the natural world.  

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