Ethel Lebenkoff
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I thrive on contradiction, am a hopeless romantic, in tandem with and currently seem to be cultivating a new bough of sentimentality. I do not think I ever stop painting about love. It is an extraordinary optimistic love whether for the image, concept, color, reality, or fantasy. The triumph of form is not compelling enough for me in fact the beauty of awkwardness, of the nearly complete, and abstraction is as close to satisfying as it gets…until I begin a new painting.
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I believe the act of paintings in the 21st century qualifies as a reference to the classical in tandem with my proclivity for the experimental and the tentative result in paintings, which hopefully invite or persuade the viewer into the magical act of wonderful wondering. For lack or other words these hybrid paintings are intensely negotiated equalizing the neutral space versus active space, and unifying elements to make the work integral. When painting—life does not get better.
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