AFTERIMAGE Hopkins Center for the Arts March 22-April 22, 2018 Artist Talk, April 12, 2018 AFTERIMAGE Project Statement 2016-2018 Afterimage is a series of abstract portraits of people who influenced Wren’s life. Instead of depicting faces and scenery, the expressionist style, the marks, and the colors denote the sense of the person or the
AFTERIMAGES, 2016 2016, mixed media, oil paint, on canvas. various sizes from ten inches across to three feet across
THE FOREIGNER! ARTIST STATEMENT December – January 2016 Websters Dictionary entry: foreigner alien, non-native, stranger, outsider, immigrant, landed immigrant, refugee, settler, newcomer. ANTONYMS native. WORD xenophobia With Foreigner! I explore and correlate contemporary and historical xenophobia and migration stories. The action of the work involves research, photography and employing mechanisms of abstraction. The material result
The Hungarian Project, 2015 The Hungarian Project, 2015 Artist in Residence, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Involves general and personal historical research concerning Jewish and Romani (Gypsy) migration narratives. This body of visual and written productivity accomplished through memory work and visual biography address my experienced and genetic past. I will spend the month of June 2015
UNDERPINNING, 2015 These are combination pieces of abstracted photographs of details of paintings that I created. I printed photographs of the paintings onto canvas and mounted them on metal. The materials and tools of both the locations and the mediums are combined. Except for one thing: no Photoshop work in making the images. These
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