My work is primarily about the memories of particular places.
The paintings begin with a memory and then change as they become a work of their own
that could be described in many ways as autobiographical. In other words, one place that is
significant whether in terms of composition, color, texture, or all of the above, is used as a
springboard for the painting.
Since it is a place that I’ve been, it is representational of my experience while there and
therefore my desire to accurately depict the memory is great. In this sense, I am
deliberately not trying to represent the place itself, but the memory of it—as evidenced by
the three small works exhibited here.
In older works, particular images became symbolic over time and were carried on from
painting to painting--for instance the image of water falling or moving as a representation of
change became part of the emotional landscape that I describing in many paintings.
Currently, I am exploring the visceral reactions that I’ve had to being in a certain place.
When returning to the studio, I’m attempting to paint not only the visual memories but those
of other senses like sound, air temperature and the feeling of textures in nature. This long-
term project is part of a general search to make painting something more than real, but
something that describes more than what’s obviously in the three-dimensional world.
Kathleen Piscioneri
June 2011
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