{"id":1114,"date":"2021-05-06T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=1114"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:58:47","slug":"avy-claire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/avy-claire\/","title":{"rendered":"Avy Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My work has always been about the forces of nature. I imagine a veil, and if you lift that veil, you get to the energy that is behind the \u201clandscape\u201d in front of your eyes. This is the place that most excites and interests me: a place where I understand the connectedness of all things, a place of fragile beauty. I can be painfully aware of how the human force intersects with this fragile place, often resulting in\u2014to put it bluntly\u2014a messy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark-making and process are integral to my studio practice, and these paintings become a metaphor where I push the mess of paint around on panels (here with blades and squeegees) to make some sort of order and, as an artist, to represent what I see. I can only hope to share the connectedness of all things and a process that comes out of a desire to make beauty and order from the mess.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"962\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/AVY_2053-768x770.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Avy Claire, <em>#theworldisamessyplace 17.05.21<\/em>,  acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 in., 2017.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/FullSizeRender-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/FullSizeRender-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/FullSizeRender-2.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/FullSizeRender-2-294x300.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/FullSizeRender-2-768x782.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Avy Claire, <em>#theworldisamessyplace 17.05.22<\/em>, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 in., 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/home-summer-exhibition-2021\/\">RETURN TO GALLERY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement My work has always been about the forces of nature. I imagine a veil, and if you lift that veil, you get to the energy that is behind the \u201clandscape\u201d in front of your eyes. This is the place that most excites and interests me: a place where I understand the connectedness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1114\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}