Diane Feught
September 13 - October 25, 2014
Opening Reception of
Broken Spell
6-9 pm with Diane Feught in attendance
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Broken Spell
is Diane Feught’s third solo exhibition with Headbones
Gallery.
Having
grown up immersed in Buddhist teachings while living in the
western world, Diane became an artist and worked in graphic
design while keeping up an active painting practice. That
she should turn to miniatures follows suit. Traditionally
miniatures depicted scenes from religious stories but
because of their portability, they were also used for
portraiture and scenes from daily life, sometimes of a
personal nature.
These twenty-five small, well-done, gouache on paper
paintings are powerful pulls towards consciousness. Each
painting is set up as an interior. The figures are within a
space, behind a mask, enclosed or boxed. The wallpaper is a
substitute for the outside, the exterior. The hallways,
stairwells, narrow door frames resemble the convoluted
recesses of the mind - elements of incomplete mystery
reigns. It is the wall paper that writhes or speaks to the
estranged nature. It is in code, just understandable now -
but with the potential for knowledge. It is the objective
reality that refers to the undisclosed subjective
personality. It is Freudian, associative.
Feught’s psychoanalytical visual approach to the human
condition in painting is alluring as well as mystifying
because she sets up her scenes with the trappings of beauty,
like a film noire.
These may be little works, but visually they deliver a
Goliath-like punch.
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