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Artist Statement for Livia Stein
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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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