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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 Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
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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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Exhibitions for E. Tilly Strauss:
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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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