That is the title of my new show at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild - Back Room Gallery in Saint Johnsbury Vermont. It is an interactive show, in which the viewers are invited to write their thoughts on what the people in the paintings may have been thinking. Small booklets and pens are provided for this. I thought of this long before there was any pandemic. So now, the show will go on in spite of the virus. But there is no opening party. Too bad. Visitors to the gallery are asked to wear masks and hand sanitizer is provided for use before and after handling the booklets. But because people may be afraid to handle them, I worry that people won’t write in the booklets.
SURPRISED AND WORRIED - What is is that she sees? Your guess is as good as mine.
When I began painting, I worked my way through a lot of subject material, but was quickly drawn to people. I love to paint people, whether from a live model, from a photo reference or from my imagination. I will take images for many different sources and mix them up in one painting. With a particular interest in human emotion, I spend a lot of time making pictures of these people and wondering who they are and what they are thinking. I always make up my own stories about them, that may be far afield from who they really are.. But once, I start to paint them, they enter my reality and I can turn them into whoever I want them to be.
MINERVA - She was the Roman goddess of Wisdom and War and a lot of other things. She is happy about the wisdom, but would like to drop the war part.
I wonder what others see when they look at my paintings. What of their own realities do the viewers bring to the painting? So after looking at these pictures and getting to know the people in them, I hope you let me know what you think they were thinking.
The show runs from June 19th - August 1st, 2020
Wednesdays through Saturdays - 11:AM until 4:00 PM
Back Room Gallery
Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild
430 Railroad St, St. Johnsbury VT 05819
802 748 0158