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Join us for an artist talk by exhibiting artist Martin Poole"Whistler made the point that all painting depends upon memory - that even when we paint from life there is always the moment when we take our eyes off the subject and look, brush in hand, at our painting. We make our next mark guided by our memory of what we have just seen, mixed together with what we want.
So we depend upon our memory to help us build our work. More importantly however, we rely on our memory to help us build our lives, to shape our lived experience, to hold our thoughts and emotions focused in a kind of aspic of imagery. Each painting is a moment distilled from our sea of memories with its own personal weight, its own purpose, its own moment of life.
It is also true that memory is never truly accurate. Memories color each other, blend together sometimes, and are almost always colored by our emotions. I try to use this slightly squishy world of near truths as raw material from which to pursue larger truths, ideas that I return to regularly in my life. What can solitude look like? Endurance? Is youth the color of spring? We know what peace feels like - how do I find an image for that?"
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2632 W 8th St, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16505