Victoria Chames - Digital Prints |
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Parked Cars, Emeryville |
Yellow Building UFO, Emeryville |
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Gray Wall, West Oakland |
Pink & Blue Wall, West Oakland |
I am a new artist in digital media. I studied Fine Art as a young woman, then married an artist and gave up my art to support his. Now returning to my art after three decades I find that everything has changed, and so have I. I have been called a Realist, but my recent work has a looser, more painterly style, a broader stroke, and is more focused on the abstract considerations of colors, shapes, and composition rather than picturemaking or storytlelling. And yet even so, the stories come forth on their own. Finally - My work is not about invention or fantasy; it's about discovery, capture, and release. I'm an explorer first, and then a perceiving mirror of what I find. I go out into the day like a child chasing butterflies - never quite catching them, but catching and keeping a huge sense of wonder and discovery that insists on being shared. That sense of curiosity, wonder, and discovery is what every artist has. It's what we do. Truths are eternal - We just rediscover them again and again, and express them in new forms and images. Yet there is magic in this, and the artist knows it. The tools of Digital Art are different, but we are doing the same thing artists have always done, and even the cave-painters did, before history began. |
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| vchames@gmail.com | |