Humanist Voices
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Barry Greenstein (3)
“My sketches explore, straddle, and sometimes dissolve the boundaries between humanity, technology, culture and nature. By combining organic and technological themes I aim to deconstruct the artificial distinction between nature and technology.” -
Eric Hamell (3)
"Most of my works give visual expression to mathematical relations. Some are graphs, using color to represent the dependent variable. Others are traces, depicting the successive states of some formal system. The message comes from nature, and I try to provide a language to make it vivid." -
Martha Knox (3)
“Since becoming a mother and caring for my daughter day after day, I have become interested in the infant figure. The short and pudgy limbs joined by delicately curved elbows and knees, tiny fingers and toes, and tremendous heads and torsos are captivating. Also fascinating is the way an infant moves: wiggling helplessly on her back, swimming on her stomach, and clumsy, lizard-like crawling. How I respond to observing my daughter’s body cannot be put into words, so I say it through colors, patterns, shapes, and animal totems. In the words of Georgia O’Keefe, ‘I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.’” -
Alice Thompson (4)
Through the media of drawing, printmaking, and cut paper installation Alice Thompson evokes the memories and feelings which underscore surface appearances. The environment and the human condition are the core of her imagery. In the summer of 2010 she will be attending the Penland School of Crafts in rural North Carolina under a work-study scholarship for emerging printmakers and will also serve as the assistant to Sas Colby for a bookmaking class at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. She is currently interested in kite making and plays the piano on a daily basis.
