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MELINDA YALE
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Imbroglio: Simultaneous Events, 60" x 76"
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Comics, animation and illustration often use humor to examine matter that may be difficult to discuss in other ways. My art uses aspects of this language: bold color and outlining, simplified and humorous forms, invented imagery and fabricated situations, for a similar pursuit. This series of drawings presents an exploration of the connections between the physiological and the psychological. I invent imagery that depicts psychological moments in which there is also physical reaction to a situation. Informed by memory and social observation, my art comments on how people respond to the anxieties and tensions of a complex world. My imagery vacillates within the gray area between pure abstraction and representation, embracing ambiguity. Outwardly, the semi-organic forms may suggest food, viscera or other bodily organs, containers or machine parts.
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Detail of Significant Occurrences, gouache
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Yet, there is often a posture or gesture that animates by suggesting thought or emotion. Though these characters have no eyes or limbs, they serve an anthropomorphic function. For me, each represents a state of mind, or rather a translated notion of experience. I use this cast of imaginary characters in compositions that examine and collect intense psychological experiences: moments of vulnerability, powerlessness, crisis, anxiety, joy and pleasure.
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Fictive Circumstances, 30" x 60"
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Detail of Fictive Circumstances, gouache
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Detail of Fictive Circumstances, gouache
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Placing the quasi-figures in situations where their physicality is manipulated encourages a sense of emotional or social manipulation. This may include such manipulation as binding, wrapping, covering up, cutting open,or exposing. What interests me most in this process of invention is developing a greater understanding of metaphors experienced through bodily or even physiological experience.
Such expressions as “gut-wrenching” or “ nerve-wracking”, or the description of “a load lifted” as relief, demonstrate a bodily understanding of the world. Indeed, many of the fictive scenarios in my drawings are image metaphors for individual private experience within the larger context of social interactivity.
This selection of images is from a series of gouache and acrylic drawings entitled "The Familiar and Strange: Collected."
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Detail of Four Blades, gouache
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