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Charles Mary Kubricht is interested in the complexity of landscape
beyond the beauty of a place.
On a raft trip through the Grand
Canyon, she used her digital camera as an artist’s notebook.
Later, she collaged these photographs into grids and painted the final scenes
onto wooden panels. Her brushstrokes and forms do not connect precisely,
creating the effect of a painting in motion.
"The Grand
Canyon is a representation of time," she says. "Its
exposed walls reach down thousands of years and it is constantly changing; it
is an illusion that the scene is still or that we are still."
Born in Houston, Texas, Charles
Mary Kubricht received her MFA from the University of Houston.
She is the recipient of three Cultural Arts Council of Houston fellowships.
Solo exhibitions include
the Galveston Arts Center, TX, the Contemporary
Arts Museum
in Houston, and the Art
Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christi.
Her paintings are in many public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Austin
Museum of Art and the El Paso Museum
of Art, El Paso, all in Texas.
Image credit:
Charles Mary Kubricht
Day 1, Evening, 11 pm, 2004
Acrylic on wood panel
70 x 105 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX.
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