Artist Information:
Livia Stein
Oakland, CA
United States
Member Since: Jul 2005
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Artist Statement:
Statement Regarding Current
Body of Work:
Livia C. Stein 2009
At the risk of sounding
simplistic or too self
absorbed, as painters and
artists sometimes are, I
propose that much of what I
paint is a biography of my
inner and outer life.
I don’t try to separate real
events from my mindful
inventions on a two
dimensional plane.
I love to paint, to put it
straight out. What begins with
an idea, ends with a journey.
Like the hang glider pilot, I
peer over the edge and jump
because that is my choice and
necessity at once. Art is my
statement of irony and my
humor and my sadness about all
that I try to accomplish and
will never achieve in the
small time I have from when I
am born to when I cease
knowing.
Recently I heard the painter
Susan Rothenberg speak about
artists striving to paint in a
way that reaches their “end
zone”. She specified both
Piet Mondrian and Philip
Guston as people who she felt
“got there”. Painters knew
what she meant. That is what I
am trying to do with the
paintings, with every one I
fall off the cliff to find.
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Welcome to Livia Stein's Portfolio.
Statement Regarding Current Body of Work:
Livia C. Stein 2009
At the risk of sounding simplistic or too self absorbed, as painters and artists sometimes are, I propose that much of what I paint is a biography of my inner and outer life.
I don’t try to separate real events from my mindful inventions on a two dimensional plane.
I love to paint, to put it straight out. What begins with an idea, ends with a journey. Like the hang glider pilot, I peer over the edge and jump because that is my choice and necessity at once. Art is my statement of irony and my humor and my sadness about all that I try to accomplish and will never achieve in the small time I have from when I am born to when I cease knowing.
Recently I heard the painter Susan Rothenberg speak about artists striving to paint in a way that reaches their “end zone”. She specified both Piet Mondrian and Philip Guston as people who she felt “got there”. Painters knew what she meant. That is what I am trying to do with the paintings, with every one I fall off the cliff to find.
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