Mindy Flexer, Artist
5225 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
ph: 215-991-5817
maflexer
Landscape
Yellow Umbrella, 17" x 15", 2005
Penn Street Alley, 15" x 15", 2005
Pink Rocks, 12" x 12", 2007
Otter Cove, 12" x 12", 2007
Mildred's Angel 2, 14" x 14", 2007
After returning from a delicious month of painting landscape in Florence a few years ago, I decided I shouldn’t have to go all the way to Italy to find something to paint. I walked out my front door and painted what was directly across the street. The irregular rhythm of the trees against Germantown Friends School and the shadows raking across the ground spoke to me in a new way.
Now I paint what is around me, indoors and outdoors in my neighborhood, in other places in Philadelphia, and beyond. Urban landscape and interior, cultivated nature, and wilderness are all interesting to me. Each is its own world with its own possibilities.
To me, each landscape speaks about impermanence. Everything will pass: the light, the wet paint, the scene, each viewer, and I. In response, I observe closely. I exploit the physicality of paint. I choose my colors carefully, and make each stroke a record of both my gesture and my vision. I look for light, geometry, and metaphor that reveal the deep unity beneath apparent separation and loss. I find comfort in the way every single thing is related to every single other thing, in both subject and painting. I find permanence in impermanence.
I understand that I am a transient being capturing a passing moment. This is a poignant realization for me. My solution is to make paintings that are simple records of the sheer pleasure of physical beauty, the lushness of paint, and the joys of seeing.
Now I paint what is around me, indoors and outdoors in my neighborhood, in other places in Philadelphia, and beyond. Urban landscape and interior, cultivated nature, and wilderness are all interesting to me. Each is its own world with its own possibilities.
To me, each landscape speaks about impermanence. Everything will pass: the light, the wet paint, the scene, each viewer, and I. In response, I observe closely. I exploit the physicality of paint. I choose my colors carefully, and make each stroke a record of both my gesture and my vision. I look for light, geometry, and metaphor that reveal the deep unity beneath apparent separation and loss. I find comfort in the way every single thing is related to every single other thing, in both subject and painting. I find permanence in impermanence.
I understand that I am a transient being capturing a passing moment. This is a poignant realization for me. My solution is to make paintings that are simple records of the sheer pleasure of physical beauty, the lushness of paint, and the joys of seeing.
5225 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
ph: 215-991-5817
maflexer
