artist statement

My paintings are a pictorial conversation in real time. In genuine dialogue one has to be open to the presence of otherness, be it another person, tradition, history, or a work of art.

I approach the canvas in an improvisational dialogue I want to explore but don’t know its end point. I see the physical space of the canvas as containing the conversation as it is played out through marks, gestures, intention, accident, space, and materials. This process of discovery is alive with energy, sometimes frustration, and animated by both formal concerns and a psychological awareness of the facts of embodiment and embeddedness in a web of relationships—person, woman, mother, wife, sister, daughter.

I am painting my side of the conversation as well as the other voice, and being open to this other voice is what animates my work and allows it to unfold on the canvas. Kinetic energy is generated by a dialogue of complementary opposites: abstract/figurative, hard edge abstraction and more gestural painting, control and accident, order and chaos, humor and pathos.

CURRENT SHOWS
Member's Open,
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Mar.10-May 14, Provincetown, MA

RECENT SHOWS
Talking Points: Space for Conversation and Debate (juried), Cambridge Art Association in partnership with Cambridge College, Jan.23-Feb.21, 2023, Cambridge College's Town Common Gallery, Charlestown, Ma

Magical Place: Small Works/Paintings, Artists of AMZehnder Gallery, Nov. 15-Jan.1, Festive Open House REception Saturday Nov. 26th, 1-5pm, Wellfleet, MA

School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University ART SALE, (juried) fundraiser to benefit the School, Nov. 3-5, 2022, Boston, MA

Represented by AMZehnder Gallery, 25 Bank St., No. 3, Wellfleet, Ma, 02667, (508) 560-8249

PRESS

2022
Surface Play at AMZehnder Gallery, July 6, 2022, Provincetown Independent
provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2022/07/06/arts-briefs-43/

2021
AMZehnder Gallery's Holiday Show, Art's Briefs, Provincetown Independent, provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2021/11/17/arts-briefs-10/

2020
Newton Artist Solo Exhibit at Piano Craft Gallery, NewtonTAB
newton.wickedlocal.com/news/20191227/newton-artist-solo-exhibit-at-piano-craft-gallery-of-boston-runs-jan-3-26

2017
Gallery 1832 at LabCentral's Grand Opening, Artscope, artscopemagazine.com/2017/10/gallery-1832-at-labcentrals-grand-opening/

Gallery 1832 to Host Artist's Debut, Cambridge Chroniclecambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20171103/gallery-1832-to-host-artist-debut

2016:
Building on Life Lessons: Thompson and Scheibler in Newton, Artscope, artscopemagazine.com/2016/08/building-on-life-lessons/

2016:
Ingrid Scheibler and Irwin Thompson, 'Pathways to Abstraction", Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, Sept-Oct.
(Click to see my paintings which are the larger ones.)

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