Betsy Cain "unbound"
Robert Steele Gallery
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'unbound' at Robert Steele Gallery speaks to a quiet unraveling of known ideas to ideas more prescient; a loosening of perceived constraints. As I continue to paint, I discover that I am more open to the meaning of the paint and its particular inference and reason.
My work skates the edge between abstraction and figuration. One slip and you slide into a discernible meaning, while a turn in another direction brings you deeper into an abstracted interior 'landscape'. I like that 'between' zone where an image is perceived but not fully understood or known immediately.
I am very interested in the body and how the body/mind perceives visual stimuli. Some of the work in 'unbound' refers to what I call 'nerve' and 'retinal' images. I have spent some time 'seeing' with my eyes closed; watching the color combinations on my mental screen while meditating and paying attention to the residual color that lingers when I close my eyes. These colors and images infiltrate my paintings.
Other work in 'unbound' references the saturated 'lowcountry' landscape of the Georgia coast and its marshes, a powerful draw to the edge of the continent. I live on a tidal creek and watch the ebb and flow of constant tides with a dramatic tidal range. This landscape exists cellularly in my body. It inhabits me.
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from April 09, 2009 to May 09, 2009