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a line goes for a walk

Solo Exhibition | ​Priscilla Steele
Reception: September 6th, 2019 5-7pm
August 30th-October 4th, 2019
Closing gallery talk: October 4th, 5-7pm
Exhibit Info

a line goes for a walk

August 30th-October 4th, 2019
Opening Reception: September 6th, 2019  5-7pm
Solo exhibit of works by Priscilla Steele
​Priscilla Steele was raised in New Jersey, just outside of New York City where regular trips into New York and Philadelphia opened a large, somewhat daunting, but very exciting, cosmopolitan world. She studied at a small liberal arts college in northern New York, and four years later spent a productive academic year in Europe where she developed a strong interest in drawing and printmaking. After graduating in 1973, she moved to the Midwest and balanced printing and drawing with theatrical design and painting, as well as furniture design with her husband, Craig Campbell. In 1986, her family moved to Iowa so she could attend graduate school at University of Iowa and acquired an MFA in printmaking. She stayed in Iowa to teach at Coe College and has since retired and continues her journey as a working artist focusing on figurative and botanical subjects in Omaha, NE.
About the Show:
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”

Plucking the medium of drawing from the exclusive realm of the “old masters”, this playful observation was made by the twentieth century artist, Paul Klee. Its matter of fact wisdom recognizes the accessible-to-all nature of drawing as a direct path to expression.

Over a more than forty year career, the variability of line has been central to my exploration of figurative and botanic subjects. Working from life, the process of finding structure, gesture and scale cleaves true to Klee’s metaphorical walking line. Tentative marks search for form. Curiosity gives way to sweeps of dynamic contour. Often a sure route is abandoned in hope of a transformative discovery. Ultimately, the marks’ paths document a meditative, sometimes confounding and nuanced progression of visual observation.

It was an unwitting, intuitive choice that led me to focus on the figure and botanic subjects. Pivoting between their contrasting qualities, I refresh my perceptions. In this way, extravagant, blossoming petals exist in a calculated tension side-by-side with emotionally charged images of the figure.

Thanks for joining me for the walk
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