| Kathy Keenan - Intersections Gallery |
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Man/Dogwood 2 oil paintings woven together 24 x 24 inches $1,200 I am very proud of this one: it won First Place in Oils/Acrylics in the Los Gatos Art Assn. Annual Open Juried Show (April 2003). I painted the man from a photo my husband took in Ireland of a Japanese tourist at Newgrange. I always loved his face: he looks so wise and so kind. At first I thought I would make a political statement by intersecting him with a monochrome painting of Manzanar (the injustice and inhumanity of the WWII Japanese internment and its echoes in today’s events). But I couldn’t do that to him, so instead I did a spray of dogwood blossoms, painted quite large. I experimented with varying the width of the strips; narrow at the center, wider toward the edges. The variance in size gives the painting motion, flying outward from the center. For me, it is an odd combination of serenity and peacefulness combined with dynamic movement. |
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