Lot 264

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Description:

Original acrylic on paper by celebrated Virginia artist Gloria Blades. This is an original abstract painting, and it came from a Virginia estate. It measures 37in x 25.5in x 1in, it is signed and framed.

    Provenance:
  • Acquired from a Virginia Estate.
  • Dimensions:
  • 37in x 25.5in x 1in
  • Artist Name:
  • GLORIA BLADES
  • Medium:
  • Acrylic on Paper
  • Notes:
  • About The Artist: Blades says she got into painting "… because I thought it would be fun." She admits that she never imagined it would be so much work, so demanding, so draining. And yet, so fulfilling. Blades began to seriously study painting in 1982 when she entered Virginia Commonwealth University's painting and printmaking school. She was 50. Before then, she had been involved with craft through textiles, running a small stitchery supply shop in Washington state. When she and her husband, Charlie, moved to Richmond, her focus changed as she was introduced to a completely new understanding of creative expression. "It was an exciting time, being back in school, having the support of wonderful professors like Barbara Tisserat, Lester Van Winkle and especially Al Schantz, who I miss terribly," she says. "He was my mentor." Few objects in Blades' paintings function as specific symbols. They often inadvertently become part of the scene because they were random bystanders, forgotten acquisitions that exist most intensely in the subconscious. As the artist conveys her sense of her space, perceived acutely at different times, some of these accessories just surface and ultimately become the subject of the work. This advance and retreat of awareness of a confined space which has personal history and was assembled to nourish the soul — yet which ends up sheltering all manner of emotional and material stuff — is what Blades' paintings consider.
  • Condition:
  • Excellent

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