Norman Allan | ||
atrium - works in wood gallery biographies email blog |
"artist's
statement" | ||
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the first line works, you stop
if not, you work it till it "works" then you stop | ||
sometimes I'll weather them in the yard a year or two then work them further | ||
and
early discards paneled Tanya's loft | ||
The
one piece I can talk about is "Happy Auschwitz" I
saw this picture in the NYT | ||
and I'll often be contrarian like "that might be red, no blue." | ||
I wanted to draw and paint because the paintings sometimes, and now often amaze and delight me | ||
I start, scribble "a riff on", and work it till its done till it works | ||