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JOAN TUCKER
Artist Statement: Canvas on Canvas

Having become immersed in the world of Japanese Boro several years ago, I began to consider textiles as another way to express my abstract painting compositions. Using hand-dyed indigo fabrics, a variety of tea-stained and raw torn pieces of canvas and linen, found materials, recycled and distressed pieces of past paintings – and black thread as expressive line and frayed edges as textural components – my practice evolved into something that I found exciting and invigorating.

When I begin a piece, I have a germ of an idea. That idea can come from something I've seen, somewhere I've been, a feeling or just a thought. The emotional story slowly begins to reveal itself to me. The painting is waiting for me to discover it and, together, the painting and I begin to "work it out."

I'm interested in what is hidden beneath the surface - in the multiple layers of texture and color. So I begin to dig and shape - to push and pull – add and subtract - whatever it takes.

I cut, tear, and paint. I scribble imaginary shapes. I create a private alphabet. I sew, compose, rip apart – and through it all, the principals of design are always there demanding to be considered. In the end, I have a painting that was begun in an emotional and intuitive state, tamed and controlled by the basic elements of organization and composition that invokes a secret world - a provocative world - a richly textured and sensual world - to get lost and found in.
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PRESS RELEASE 2018
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