Christina Dallorso Bush
The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition - Collective Exhibition
August 14 - September 2, 2009
Reception:
Thursday August 20, 2009 6-8 PM
Press Release
Christina Dallorso Bush’s drawings reach behind people’s confident veneer, pulling out capricious narratives about the way we live. Her delicate pen and ink technique lends itself to surprises. The unforgiving medium impels her to remain flexible and embrace any unexpected marks. Her stories thus maintain free-spirited openness, offering involved visual narratives but not presuming to understand the complicated web of daily life. Viewers are left to find their own nuanced stories in each drawing.
Dallorso Bush has exhibited nationally. She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
My first memory of drawing was at the age of nine. Living in public housing in lower Manhattan with 3 sisters, a brother and first generation Italian parents, my escape, my way of finding privacy, was to draw. I do not explain my work, because I think that when the artist does not describe or explain the viewer is given the privilege of having their own experience and telling their own story. What I can say is that I have always found people fascinating, particularly in how seriously we take ourselves and how our outer persona is often different to the way we feel inside, and I explore this in my art. I hope for people to walk away a bit perplexed and asking questions about the people in my drawings and their lives. An image can evoke an entire story about a life. This is my way of telling that story visually.
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