Of The Ocean

Of The Ocean

begin- a shallow

teardrop

sinks filling

the tongue

This diptych of paintings is an experiment for crossing the boundaries of my poetry and visual art.

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V-Project

(The concept behind the 5 paintings below)

V-Project: I am making an effort to reclaim the lost territory of connection and continuity in the chronology of historical discourse. The components I created are unsentimental symbols of vaginas—not meant to be essentialist or reductive, but imaging a part of the body hidden, yet not sealed off from the external world; they are passageways—not fixed points—connecting the inside with the outside, binding one being to another in complicated ways. They are portraits, memoir, autobiography, documentary, fictions.

Systems are an overt and underlying theme in my recent work: the grid, repetition, units, layers, time; concepts of closed systems where nothing can get in or out and open systems where there is permeability. Patterns: of society, politics, aesthetics, science, disciplines, people. “How do you anticipate a future you haven’t experienced?” was a question that arose from trying to understand the multiple systems converging into the current economic crisis and the people affected; with the abstraction of statistics, we don’t comprehend the meaning of the data, the context, the realities of the actual people represented by numbers, formulas, and equations. This study segued into my “vagina” project— gender based crimes of war and domestic violence.

What Were They Like?

It Was Reported Their Singing Resembled the Flight of Moths in Moonlight

Titled from a line in the poem What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov

For All I Know, This Happens Every Night

A Memory I Recognize, As Though We Had Been Children Together

Titled from a line in the poem The Pond by Louise Gluck

Evidence That An Event Has Occurred

Matrimonial Tallis: Never Greet Your Husband at the Door In Your Housedress and Rollers

Orpheus: "You're Tougher Than I Thought"

Starting from the top left, the tags read: 

STORM / WHITE

MOSS / WHITE

CLAY / WHITE

FLINT / WHITE

BLACK / WHITE

Eurydice: "I Am an Instrument in the Shape of a Woman"

37 Main Street  Narrowsburg, New York 12764

LISA STRIER

“ART OBJECTS”

MIXED MEDIUMS

 

FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 14

OPENING RECEPTION

SATURDAY 2.21.09

 

2-4pm

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Homewrecker

The Edge of One of Many Circles

Title excerpted from Wallace Steven's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Has Your Husband Come Home To The Right Woman?

Silence, Exile and Cunning

The Sweet Hell Within, The Unknown Want

 

Title excerpted from Walt Whitman's poem — Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking

A Small Part of the Pantomime

Title excerpted from Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

From The Remembrance, The Desire

This painting inspired by:

Long night: unable to sleep

The moonlight, how breakingly bright.

Callling, someone seems calling.

Into the empty air, I answer “Yes?”

—Anonymous (#4 of the Zi Yi series), translated by Wai-Lim Yip

The Joyous Is The Lake. The Clinging Is Fire.

Full Title:

The Joyous Is The Lake. It Means Dropping Off and Bursting Open. Among Women it Means the Tongue and the Mouth. The Clinging Is Fire. It Means Helmets and Weapons. Among Men it Means the Big Bellied.

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We Can Get Behind

Of The Ocean

Arresting Spring—

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Oh,

In Order to Seduce, the Gods Were Known to Take On Shapes Irresistible to Mere Mortals

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Any Woman Knows What to Expect When She Gives Him the Best...

MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts

I've been accepted to Goddard College, Plainfield Vermont to pursue my MFA-IA!

I haven't been a college student in 25 years-yikes!

Lying is Done With Words. And Also Silence.

Safe Haven of Pike County Poster

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A Romance Like Water Running Down a Hill

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Provisional Anatomy

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'Old Wives' Tales'

Titles from L to R:

Creation Myth

Portrait of the Artist and Her Mother

Coffee, Beer & Girls

Their Lives At Any Moment May Float Away Like Feathers

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

(We Will Not Simply Decide to Hunker Down & Act As If We Aren’t Here) What Will Our Answer Be?

It’s Almost Over and I’m Almost Home and I’m Scared That Maybe a Lucky Shot Will Get Me

There's Not Much Difference Between a Swing and a Swat

Titles from L to R:

She Was a Nice Juicy Girl When She Was Young. When

There are Two Types Of Women in America: Women Who, When They Become Mothers, Breastfeed Their babies; and Women Who, When They Become Mothers, Don't.

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