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Inside the Studio, Alyson Kinkade, fine art painting

About Alyson Kinkade, fine art painting

Alyson earned her BFA in painting in 1999 from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Professional memberships include; "American Women Artists", (AWA) contributing member & "Women Artists of the West" (WAOW) associate member

 

"I observe in nature subtle shifts -- the variations of color, curve of the horizon, meeting of water to earth to sky. The plains are embracing and full -- lakes still and enticing. By reducing the subject to its primary componentthe larger picture becomes clear.

These reductive abstractions of nature are a compilation of my thoughts, philosophies & observations rather than a literal translation. I use open fields, crops and lakes as the foundation for my ideas to build on. I am most attracted and intriqued by the understated beauty of agriculture. Like the vanishing American plains, my aesthetics lend to simple forms in conjunction with an agitated surface.

Repitition & illumination of these forms creates a dialect, a communication of parts -- forms -- colors. The most alluring component being color, an ephemeral presence experienced daily.

My interest in agriculture lies in the attempt made by man to contain and cultivate -- such a tremendous, seemingly futile task. This juxtaposition of order and chaos brings about my relation of the lax medium of paint with the structure of the grid. The grid acts as a binding unit of parts as well as a separation of the same. There is a pleasing, meditative quality that comes from the rhythm of difference and repetition -- a harmonious, subtle tension created by an integration of structure & the unplanned. Process is important to the surface of painting, so traces are left like tracks in a field."

The lake compositions emphasize the need and desire for calmness. Water frequently speaks of serenity and the stillness of lakes lends to color field painting with immediacy.

Recent architectural works stem from the relation of people and land - influence of place manifests in space. Italy is exemplified by ornately decorated facades, of buildings built upon buildings, richly patinaed surfaces that are generations old; Santa Fe is revealed through simple adobes and fierce skies; San Diego with Post-Modern buildings in bright colors; and Colorado’s bungalows influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.

-Alyson Kinkade
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