The paintings presented herein were created over the last 20 years, influenced by Japanese traditional aesthetics, which taught me the lesson of yojo, or resonance, the expressive power of simplicity, suggestion and nuance in poetic expression. My images were radically reduced, with shape and color the bases of evocation. In addition I became entranced with a very different aesthetic, that of Yugen, which derives from Noh, which is Zen drama. This traditional theatre expresses the interaction between the externals of appearance and the dark, hidden, mysterious inner nature of the self, especially woman, who is seen as unknowable through rational processes, glimpsed only through the artistic experience. This concept is the core of my work since I returned to California, after extensive travel in Europe, Asia and Latin America. As I moved to the modern metropolis, the complexity of the...
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