Dialogue
- Title
- Dialogue
- LC Subject
- Painting Acrylic painting painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) acrylic paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Surmon, Angelita
- Description
- An acrylic painting featuring three human figures set against a hand-made brown background with lines of color. Dialogue; [no.] 2; 1993 Angelita Surmon is an Oregon artist who received her B.S. in 1972 and her BFA in 1977, from Oregon State University. She has continued her education at Vermont Studio School, the Sitka Center, and in Papua, New Guinea. (Oregon Arts Commission, 1995) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_60_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_60_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Surmon, Angelita
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 41 x 29 inches
- Material
- Painting; acrylic on hand-made paper
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Work begins by making a unique kozo paper textured and loaded with bits of colored paper and gold leaf. This creates a rich, illusionistic foundation. The painting process combines stencils, transfer drawing and direct brushwork. My processes and tools are uncomplicated and direct and carry on a connection with the past. My intent is to synthesize diverse elements into one visual idea. The graffiti-like gestures set against figures and stencil patterns juxtapose recklessness with order and care. I intended through the layering and complexity for my work to have an immediate as well as continued appeal, inviting further exploration. As I work, information is deleted or changed, and replaced by other layers of material. Areas may be reworked several times with veiled remnants of earlier images appearing. The painting is a balance of intuitive and spontaneous reactions to events that occur during its creation. I am striving for a richness of surface and a quality of depth and feeling which happens as the work develops. It is through this building up of texture, pattern and color that I intend to give the figure it's life. I am searching for a timeless, universal image which illustrates the integrity and dignity of the human spirit. It is an effort to make visible life's essence and make it speak to other as well as to me.
