Reagan Lake
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Commodities traded, crops worked through slave labor. Indigo was a slave crop in South Carolina. This is what is interesting to me. Using materials to hold those competing and conHlicting realities and perspectives.
I’ m not sure if personal experience is indispensable as part of the creative process however, it has been my experience that even with purely formal and seemingly disinterested art, if you did deep enough you Hind that the work can be understood in terms of the personal, cultural and historical context in which it was created. This is what art historians do. I would be curious to see what a creative process that is disconnected from experience looks like.
We would like to pose some questions about the balance established by colors and texture: your pieces combine thoughtful and intense tones and contrasting shapes that accomplish the difficut task of establishing tension and a provocative dynamic. We have really appreciated the vibrancy of thoughtful nuances that saturate your canvas and especially the way they suggest the idea of plasticity. How did you come about settling on your color palette? And how much does your own psychological make-up determine the nuances of tones and the materials you decide to use in a piece and in particular, how do you develope your textures? cultivated by slaves in South Carolina. Today indigo is the primary color for the denim of blue jeans. As a medium I think they evoke natural resources.
The textures and color palette in my work are often the result of extensive experiment but sometimes its determined by the materials themselves or lucky accidents. I think it is perceptive and appropriate to use the word nuance. Subtlety and nuance are characteristics that feel right in reference to the textures and palettes in my art. I have experimented with textiles with more color
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