On Titles: Tracey Adams

Tracey Adams says:

"My work is inspired by many years of music study and its organization. Words that reference intervals, counting, circular movement, and numbers grab my interest for titles of various series I've worked on over the last 20 years. Visually this translates as patterns and movement. Sometimes there is an obvious connection with the title, other times, it is more oblique."

Sometimes I use a title of a musical composition that visually conveys something musical as in the Lumenis series (Lumenis 23, encaustic, oil and collage on panel, 40x40, 2013). 

Grapheme (Grapheme 3, encaustic and oil on panel, 40x30, 2013) is the smallest unit in a written language and may or may not have any meaning. Many symbols qualify as language systems, including numerical digits.

Radix, (Radix 22, encaustic monotype, acrylic, cold wax on panel, 36x36, 2012) for example, references a numeral system. In this case, the connection is more oblique.

An older series, Revolution, (Revolution 3, encaustic and monoprint on 4 panels, 30x30, 2006) is a more obvious connection.

How do you title your paintings? Revisited 2013

I was going through my blog the other day and found a post in 2009 about paintings and titles. I have decided to open up the conversation again. 

Here is artist Connie Goldman on her titles:

"My titles reflect my love of language. I like to learn about word derivations in particular.  I even took a couple of classes in college that were concerned with Latin and Greek influences in the English language.  If you peruse my journals there are some that consist mainly of lists of words, their definitions, and their derivations.  For awhile all my titles were reflective of both the content and the reductive nature of my work.  I used Latin bases such as "Concertare", "Metrum", "Loci", and "Reciprocus".
Since my work is almost always about the tension between stability and change, and since I find the meter and space in language and music to be fascinating I search the dictionary for words that are connected to these things.  I've used "Brook", "Treble", "eddy", and "Current" for bodies of work."  

Brook VI

Metrum

Phasis X

Treble V

Reciprocus

What artists have influenced you ? Deborah T. Colter

Deborah T. Colter is an artist I have come across in my travels with twitter, facebook and just plain internet research. She is a mixed media artist and has two exhibitions coming up: featured artist at the Cousen Rose Gallery, Martha's Vineyard and a group show at Water Street Gallery , Douglas, Michigan.





"Mapping Out Bliss" 40" x 48" work on canvas

"I think of my paintings as un-still lives, at once frozen and in motion. I focus on the concept of capturing a moment of thought, purely through my visual language. I strive to capture the fleeting memories and images that travel rapidly through the mind and represent these thoughts in the layers of color, texture and repeating marks within the work. My language is an abstract collection of marks, textures and color, repeating shapes and forms, with which I seek to find a balance of chaos and harmony. Often these marks will reflect architectural landscapes, roads, maps, repeated patterns, or colors as if seen from above or as recalled from within, a sort of visual record book of the mind."

Robert Rauschenberg - for his continual work with collage and paint
Richard Diebenkorn - for his use of space and line structures
Mark Rothko - for his use of color
Pablo Picasso - for everything he created
VanGogh for living, color, line, passion, energy, emotion
Jackson Pollack - for his desperate joy
Henri Matisse for his spirit and color
Amedeo Modigliani - his odd quirky portraits

"Ordinary Spectacle" 36" x 48" work on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec his oils and lithographs
Alberto Giacometti - his sculptures of walkers
Paul Klee for his whimsy and composition
Tony Magar - the space paintings for his depth of color, texture and energy
Sharon Booma - love her use of color & balance
Glen Ossiander - for his freedom, emotion & joy in the work
Paul Baumer - especially the cityscapes for his whimsy and color
Doug Trump - for his incorporation of line, color and composition




"Pieces of Imagination" 30" x 30" work on canvas