ARTIST STATEMENT
HARRIETT LOWELL HACHE
My Art Career began at the age of 35 years
with "Mother Responsibility." I chose to give
my three Boston “Brahmin” Lowell daughters the "opportunity
like their ancestors (Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Ralph Lowell,
and John Lowell, Jr. - their father) to be educated at prestigious
private schools in Boston, Massachusetts; which is why
I decided to leave Maine and continue our education in Boston.
I submitted an ingenious, strongly designed, family album of
my three precious daughters and my loved Kenney-Hache family
as my (admission art portfolio) to the Art Institute of
Boston in 1978.
This "Family Album" consisted of personal photographs
taken with an (instamatic) camera. The Art Institute of Boston "tentatively" accepted
me into their photography program on the condition that I first
study at the Maine Photography Workshop in Camden, Maine to
learn use of a 35mm camera - which I did!
Being bored with the AIB "technical" aspect of photography;
I transferred to SMFA - the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, Mass, only to discover their photography concentration
was also too technical for my aesthetic.
Then I was invited by Professor Jack Clift at SMFA to join
in his silkscreen printmaking class where I remained for the
next eight years. Jack Clift encouraged me to use a slide projector
to draw and sensuous, lead-based silkscreen paint for my silk
screening!
This process of creating (personal) art using my personal experiences
has provided me with continuous scholarships, art awards, teaching
opportunities, recognition and encouragement.
For example, I have been recently invited to teach an "Art
of Projection Workshop" at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond,
CA, and I have been accepted as a "member artist" at
the 4th Street Studio in Berkeley, CA.
Today, 2007, I still employ my trusty ole slide projector in
order to remain (attached) inside myself to the level where
my whole "gut" quivers during drawing with my projector
method.
After my intense drawing sessions I further develop the image working,
the line, the color, and the edges while giving very close
attention to negative and positive space; never "correcting" mistakes
, but (using) them - keeping the whole Art process Fun,Fun,Fun!
My goal is to produce artwork where:
" The psychological energy is so powerful that the artwork jumps out at
you and hits you in your gut!"
