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Artist Statement:
I have been painting chickens
for the last 20 years-
beginning with the advertizing
of our family’s poultry farm
business thru the eventual
move of my studio into the
defunct slaughterhouse.
Somehow chickens fall easily
from my brush, leaving
painstaking impressions of my
psyche and chronicling
retrospective concerns of my
community- such as the source
of food, the use of land, the
clarity of love, the isolation
of individuals. With the
inclusion of text from
headlines to personal lists,
stories emerge and dissolve
through the process of the
painting. Layering in the push
and pull of darks and lights,
the paintings gel into a
narratives of our anxious era,
a larger tale of the moods of
soul and season.
Because of the space and time
I am afforded to work, much of
my painting up to this has
been intimate in dimension. I
would like to enlarge the
images to a much more
confrontational scale. I
recently moved out of the
poultry slaughterhouse
(because of ventilation needs)
into a much larger barn. My
goal is to further push the
images so that they reflect
the chicken as legend in our
cultural mythology and account
for my current truths.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Celebrating Women's History:
Marching On
March 5-27 at the Howland
Cultural Center
Beacon, NY, USA
postings of daily paintings on
www.dailypainters.com
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
MetroNorth Poughkeepsie Train
Station, NY, USA
The Southampton Inn, LI, NY,
USA
The Kildonan School, Amenia,
NY, USA
The Maplebrook School, Amenia,
NY, USA
The Schoolhouse Theater,
Croton Falls, NY
Dutchess County Tourism,
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
First Congregational Church,
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
The Durango Herald, CO, USA
and a few ...
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Commissions:
MetroNorth and the
Revitilization of Poughkeepsie
committee, NY, USA- a giant 10
x 8 foot unfolding treasure
map of Dutchess County
installed in the entry walkway
of the train station-
2007-2008
First Congregational Church,
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA- a giant
13 foot wide ascending Dove
for above the Alter- 2009
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E. Tilly Strauss Biography:
| Biographical information for E. Tilly Strauss can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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50
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
definitely spiritual |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
painting every day, raising chickens, traveling, teaching |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Modernism - (1890 - 1940)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Alice Neel
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Lucas Cranach's Eve
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Watching my grandma's neighbor, Alexander Calder, go to work everyday. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I was given an unused chapel at age 7 to use as my own studio. Have been expressing myself and selling work ever since. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born with a crayon, I have since developed into an administrator, auteur, award winner, catalyst, collaborator, enabler, magician, producer and organizer. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado U. Boulder, a BFA in painting and printmaking, and a BA art history. In efforts to save my grandfather’s farm, I created a weekly storyline, logo, signage, murals, and designs for a successful 9 year family poultry farm business. At the same time I taught high school art at a local boarding school. With my students we won the Dutchess County Executive Art award for a series of murals depicting historic buildings in our town. I have numerous shows each year and have a supportive collector base around the world. In 2005 I was able to get sponsors to help me travel to Barcelona and paint. In 2006 I made a commitment to paint everyday using the defunct slaughterhouse as my studio. In 2007 I did a 35 day public painting performance in my hometown, called A Month of Sundaes. Soon after I was awarded a public art commission for a County “Treasure” map created and now installed at the Poughkeespie NY, Metro North train station. In 2009 I was awarded a commission to create a coloring book for Dutchess County Tourism and my art was featured on the cover issue of three regional magazines.
Just recently, 2011, I moved to Miami Florida for a new adventure out of my comfort zone. Perhaps the chickens will be exchanged for flamingos? |
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