All that Jazz - fluid acrylics |
Crescent Moon - fluid acrylics
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The Recital - fluid acrylics |
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"It is exciting to create in a new medium. This body of work is a departure from my recognizable hand-painted paper collage and represents a venture into the world of acrylic. Seeking to capture a moment in time, a feeling or an emotion; I pour, splatter, drip, spread and float the paint to create the pieces. Inspired by the techniques used by the Abstract Expressionists, a study of the history of Chinese calligraphy and an appreciation of Japanese block prints these new works are full of texture and motion but retain the simplicity of oriental art. In many of them I have employed methods used in paper marbling. In particular the use of Suminagashi, Japanese word meaning “ink floating.” I have adapted this ancient art, which uses ink, to the acrylic medium. In Suminagashi, the ink is allowed to flow and create the art rather than be manipulated. This flow is important to my work and is made possible by the use of fluid acrylic. In this fluid state the paint retains the properties of tube acrylic but the flow of a liquid medium. Abstract in nature, my works suggest a subject but allow the viewer to define the meaning for themselves. I hope you enjoy participating in the experience."
Artist’s Biography
Patricia Thalman arrived in Fredericksburg in 2001 after relocating in retirement from State College, Pa. A University of Maryland graduate, Thalman was born and raised in Annapolis, Md. Interested in art from childhood, a move to Buffalo, N.Y., allowed Thalman to actively pursue her passion as a tour docent and lecturer at the world-famous Albright-Knox Art Museum. She also had an interim appointment as art Curator of Education at the Burchfield Center in Buffalo. After moving to Central Pennsylvania, she became active in the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania in Lemont, Pa., where she studied Chinese brush painting, and served as well as an ambassador at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. She took sculpture and print making courses at Penn State and earned her Master’s in Art Education from the University in 1996. She had a solo show at the Centre Community Hospital Gallery in 1997 and a two-person show at the Gallery at the Gamble Mill the same year. Since landing here, Thalman has been a participant in Johnny Johnson’s workshop. She was a founding member of the Brush Strokes Gallery, leaving in 2006 to join Art First, where she currently serves as Gallery President. She won an honorable mention in the recent Fredericksburg Fine Arts Exhibit, in which she has hung her art on several occasions. She mounted solo shows at the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts and the Salem Church Branch of the Rappahannock Library in 2005. This September (2007), she showed her newest creations, abstracts in fluid acrylic, in a two-person show at Art First.
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