Quotes from Artists

This quote caught my eye. Kiki Smith was speaking to an audience in Seattle Thursday evening, the evening I was attending a reception for my own work. More on that later. Here's the quote:

Refuse to be owned by style. Do not be strangled by your own history. Flip the meaning. Explore the facets. What holds up for you at one time doesn't have to hold up for the rest of your life. Your work can be conflicted. I used to be interested in how much skin a body had, how much blood. I'm not as exact now.

This is a blog entry from Another Bouncing Ball, an Arts Journal Weblog.

A Room Full of Sisters

I am showing a painting in the group show A Room Full of Sisters at C Art Gallery 855 Hiawatha Place South, Seattle, WA  98144. At the reception, March 4th 5:30 to 7:30 pm, special guest Seattle Poet Laureate and author Mona Lake Jones whose poem, "A Room Full of Sisters" inspired the exhibit.  

A Little About the Wrestler Series

 (c) Lita Kenyon 2009
Welcome.
After years of experimenting with imagery, of few of those years spent working in print advertising, I have found images that I want to work with.

With the Wrestler series I am deliberately depicting the figure in an ambiguous space as I hope to examine the static role of wrestlers as they might be related to our national consciousness. Wrestlers are paradoxical, representative and very static, while representing aggressive motion. This series of paintings and drawings help me to explore this dichotomy in a painterly way. For me the muted pallet helps distill persona lacking finesse.

I moved to Seattle from Washington, DC in 1999. I graduated in 1982 with an emphasis in Fine Art, but my first exposure to art came from my father, Robert Kenyon, artist and musician throughout my childhood. I recall during family vacations and endless highway excursions my father emphasizing the value of observing the subject and the environment, looking for color or detail that might not necessarily be apparent on first glance.