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Hank Feeley (USA) An artist’s statement
It's not about what my paintings mean. It's about what you see. My painted collages are all about color and composition. Those are the mainstays. I draw from all sources. I'm kind of a nut about collecting images. I have boxes and boxes of them. All jumbled up. There are photographs I've taken, sketches I've made, fragments of my old paintings, doodles, things out of newspapers and magazines, pieces of fabric and found objects. Whatever catches my eye. They are out of our culture, mythology, art history, whatever. I go through these things every time I make a new painting. But when I see them again, reshuffled and out of context, I get new ideas about them. That's the inspiration. I take images that weren't meant to go together and put them together into a provocative and colorful composition that is aesthetically pleasing, at least to me. As one writer put it : "Feeley has a unique way of disorienting the viewer so we can see again, now with our perception refreshed." Hank Feeley 46
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