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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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Artist Statement for E. Tilly Strauss
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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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