Mindy Flexer, Artist
5225 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
ph: 215-991-5817
maflexer
Still Life
Night Garlic, 15" x 24", 2005
Kitchen Sink, 15" x 15", 2005
Breakfast, 12" x 12", 2006
Onion and Buddlea, 12" x 12", 2005
I take the world as it is, because I find it more compelling than anything I can invent or arrange. I hope my paintings reveal the significance of the common, often disregarded places I find. I picture my finished paintings returning to the everyday world from which they came, hanging in people’s houses, becoming part of the fabric of life the way my bowls did when I was a studio potter.
What makes the things I paint special to me? The first thing is light. Outdoors and indoors, I love the way light transforms everything. Light has no respect for edges, but replaces the borders between nouns and spaces with the border between light and shadow. Light is always performing this labor of dividing and reassembling, reuniting in light or shadow forms previously separated by edges.
The second thing I look for is a kind of geometry that makes every shape excite every other shape. I learned the mechanics of perspective late in life, and the way it creates this geometry continues to fascinate me. The third thing is metaphor. The dramas between objects and spaces in the landscape or an interior become metaphors for our human dramas, so that each subject goes beyond itself to speak about something larger.
What makes the things I paint special to me? The first thing is light. Outdoors and indoors, I love the way light transforms everything. Light has no respect for edges, but replaces the borders between nouns and spaces with the border between light and shadow. Light is always performing this labor of dividing and reassembling, reuniting in light or shadow forms previously separated by edges.
The second thing I look for is a kind of geometry that makes every shape excite every other shape. I learned the mechanics of perspective late in life, and the way it creates this geometry continues to fascinate me. The third thing is metaphor. The dramas between objects and spaces in the landscape or an interior become metaphors for our human dramas, so that each subject goes beyond itself to speak about something larger.
5225 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
ph: 215-991-5817
maflexer
