From September 2, 2005 through October 19, 2005, Atlanta-based artist Deanna Sirlin will exhibit fifteen large scale multimedia drawings, her latest body of work, in the Atrium of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Since 1999, Sirlin has combined painting and drawing with digital imaging technologies to produce innovative hybrid works that possess the coloristic and tactile qualities of painting, but derive from the manipulability of the digital image.
To make the works for “It's All In My Head,” Sirlin digitally sampled passages from her own scanned oil paintings, printed the resulting images on canvas, and created new works by painting and drawing over the scanned images. “I see myself as carving out a new image from the existing one,” she notes. “When I add new colors and images, I'm playing with my own earlier ideas-I'm dancing around them.”
The abstract, vertical drawings in this series are scaled to human proportions (six feet by two feet) and feature the lively, rounded shapes and the intense, eye-popping colors characteristic of Sirlin's work. The mood of these works is highly optimistic. The bright colors and upward movement of bubble-like forms evoke a joyous, playful feeling.
Sirlin states “The images in these new drawings are in my head they are also in my body. I see the forms as I make them; my hand and eye work together as one. It is the physical experience of painting that is articulated in the drawings. The circles are planets, molecules, bubbles, eyes and mouths that revolve around one another. The color is what I feel radiating out from inside; I want everyone who looks at these understand that they are my secrets. I circle passages of my own painting to reveal them to the viewer and to myself. Drawing is the act of finding the painting.”
Deanna Sirlin's work is in permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy), Kunsthaus Nuremberg (Germany), and the Shenzhen Institute of Fine Arts (PR China).
The awards she has received for her work include a Visiting Artist Fellowship to Nuremberg, Germany, and a 1997 award for Women in the Visual Arts from the State of Georgia. Sirlin maintains her studio on a horse farm in Alpharetta, Georgia, outside of Atlanta.
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