Mango Corner is another still life on paper in the early grad school series of paintings. Taken with the pattern of the cloth, I wanted to make it flatter and more decorative than my naturalistic observational training encouraged. The crowding of the objects in a corner gave me the challenge and the opportunity to deal with the space around it as a whole, and try to make it work as an independent entity.
Mango Corner
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In painting still lives, I am painting relationships. Fraught, volatile, awkward, or joyful, my objects become characters in their narrative. |