by admin | Dec 20, 2013 | Art, Community
My abstract paintings are an emotive exploration discovered through a stream-of-consciousness process. I begin with an urge to paint a certain color or draw a particular shape. By adding layers of oil pigmented wax with pastels, fabric, twine, and paper, the surface becomes thick and textured. I impulsively rotate the panel’s orientation, allowing wax drips to mark each direction. Scraping the wax, I incise strong gestural marks, expose previous layers of color, and remove fused 3-dimensional objects leaving behind their imprints.
I am typically not present to the full nature of emotion I reveal during the actual process, as I work through intuition and less through critical approach. Whichever emotions I am describing, I am guided by a desire to create a painting which feels complete and balanced through form, line, movement, and color. This desire during the painting process reflects a typically human quest to experience balance and completeness in life.
Incised lines, dripped wax, and traces of removed objects and layers underneath create a sense of emotional depth, history, and essence of time. The act of building and removing wax and objects parallels the experience of adding and subtracting in life- people, possessions, personality traits, and habits. Thus my paintings, revealed through a subconscious process, are a visual representation of my emotional history.
My figurative paintings and sculpture are often displayed in conjunction with my abstract as poetic installation. The dramatically emotive black and white palette of my figurative work is melodiously juxtaposed next to my chromatic abstracts.
Gunsorek studied painting at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and in Rome, Italy. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio. See more art: http://megangunsorek.com
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Art
I started to paint when I graduated from high school. I came across a large wooden board that was meant for the trash, put it on my bedroom floor and just went to work. Since I found this canvas in the trash I had no pressure to care if what I was creating was good or not. I lost myself for a couple weeks in doing whatever seemed pleasing. After that I started on a trash to treasure mission. Whenever I saw scrap wood or scrap plywood in the streets I drug it home. After a few years I painted on my first canvas and started to experiment with different kinds of paints. I’ve developed a style of painting in which I like to use acrylics, paint over them with oils which can be easily layered and manipulated.
When I start a painting I have no plans. Sometimes I have a strong emotion to express sometimes not. I have an interactive conversation with the canvas starting with a line or a shape, it responds back to me and slowly becomes something. I like the meditative process that moves through my head as I pan
In almost every painting I come to an uncomfortable place; I don’t know what I am going to do and I don’t know if I even like what is going on but I keep pressing on (sometimes I step away for months or days or minutes) until I create something out of it I can be happy with. Such is life. Glad to be able to share it with you all and my most favorite art, the art of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
by urban-acupuncture | Nov 19, 2012 | Art
It was my first summer in Columbus when I stumbled upon the lotus pond at Goodale Park. I didn’t realize that the same kind of lotus that I grew up with in Thailand could thrive in this midwestern climate. With camera in hand, I returned to the pond several times that summer to capture what felt so familiar to me, in my new home-turf.
Photograph by Kit Yoon
I love the different shades of green, the geometric shapes, and the varied angles of a lotus plant’s life. In Buddhism, the lotus is a symbol of purity. It helps guide one to lead a simple, pure life.
The lotuses of Goodale park are long-gone now (they drenched the pond and installed a new fountain). I am thrilled to be able to share these captured moments that brought me a sense of home, and tranquility.
Kit Yoon is a licensed acupuncturist. She is often seen with a camera wherever she goes. She was born and raised in Thailand, educated in New England, enjoyed the California sand and sun for a decade. She now lives with her husband, two children, two chickens, a dog, and a bunny in Bexley, Ohio.
Photograph by Kit Yoon
- Photograph by Kit Yoon
My abstract paintings are an emotive exploration discovered through a stream-of-consciousness process. I begin with an urge to paint a certain color or draw a particular shape. By adding layers of oil pigmented wax with pastels, fabric, twine, and paper, the surface becomes thick and textured. I impulsively rotate the panel’s orientation, allowing wax drips to mark each direction. Scraping the wax, I incise strong gestural marks, expose previous layers of color, and remove fused 3-dimensional objects leaving behind their imprints.
Incised lines, dripped wax, and traces of removed objects and layers underneath create a sense of emotional depth, history, and essence of time. The act of building and removing wax and objects parallels the experience of adding and subtracting in life- people, possessions, personality traits, and habits. Thus my paintings, revealed through a subconscious process, are a visual representation of my emotional history.
