jessica@jessicawarner.net
http://www.jessicawarner.net
In my most recent body of work, I am focusing on the bareness of drawing, using line to locate forms. Line discovers boundaries and edges. It carves into the space of the white paper, describing a form, making space solid.
As I work, edges and distinctions dissolve and reform. Solid forms are made of empty space and empty space becomes solid. Constellations of lines, created by sticks dipped in gouache describe forms. Interspersed with line are larger areas of color, at times confining themselves to the inside of the drawn lines. At others moving through creating new edges. In this way I am playing in the space between drawing and painting.
When I begin, I set up a still life of small objects, the actors on my stage. Often these objects or characters reappear again and again in different works. Stories, narratives, relationships, situations form, then dissolve and reform. What remains, in the end, is a situation arrived at, discovered, inviting speculation, a story to be re-imagined by each viewer.
I am also on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail at www.ArtTrail.com
