“Do You See What I See” Abstract Expressions
“Do You See What I See” Abstract Expressions Exhibition,
Opening April 11, 2019, 6-9pm Gallery Guichard
Describing the artistic vision of my work:
Alpha Bruton
At this plateau in her life, she started to reflect upon how her work affects lives. In 2005 she started her series on vibration sound that teaches the body at all levels how to have a new experience. Bringing us into focus with the opportunities to choose new ways to live out our lives in each new moment, they seem to mirror to us things that we have forgotten about ourselves, reminding us just how powerful we truly are in changing our reality.
Vibration Sound Narratives was a five- year exploration of various musicians: jazz, improvisational jazz, creative music, electric music, and alternative sound where she created over 1,000 archived abstract sketches, in a response to the sound streams of musicians. This was a visual transcription-recording of what she was feeling, hear, and seeing during these performances. Vibration Sound Narratives are a very comprehensive system of patterns or vibrations that teach our bodies at all levels how to have a new experience. They activate a practice similar to “Vi-bra Keys” associated with sound, shape, and image in the context of emotional response, and unlock visual-spatial intelligence in the artists among us, who think in pictures.
VSN 1007, Fletcher AACM MP, sketched in 2007, painted in 2009
Abstract Expressionism “Do You See What I See”
These paintings were often made of shapes, lines, and forms not meant to depict a ‘reality’ from the visible world. Believing that non-representational painting can express spiritual and emotional truths most directly.
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Her color palette of bold primary: red, yellow, and blues is influenced by growing up in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley where she has adopted the art styles and influences of muralists, and art educators she studied under and came to know as colleagues. The geometric abstract of blurring the lines between curved and figurative, textile, and the fluidness of fabric dying, and wax melting is present in this series. These works are acrylic glazing on watercolor paper, collage on canvas.
The artistic movement is known as “Abstract Expressionism” reached a peak in the mid-20th century; it was comprised of diverse styles and techniques that emphasized the artist’s freedom to express emotions and attitudes in nontraditional and nonrepresentational ways.
Although the term Abstract Expressionism was first coined in 1929 when referring to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, who completed his artwork in Russia and Europe, the peak of the movement started in New York among a small group of loosely affiliated artists, the most famous of which is Jackson Pollock. Swiss-born Paul Klee (a colleague of Kandinsky) also completed many works in the style. Abstract Expressionism was the dominant trend in western painting throughout the 1950s; it has also been referred to as “The New York School” or “Action Painting.”[i]
“These artists valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the highest importance to the process.[ii] Their work resists stylistic categorization, but it can be clustered around two basic inclinations: an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of color. In either case, the imagery was primarily abstract. Even when depicting images based on visual realities, the Abstract Expressionists favored a highly abstracted mode.”
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.