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JCC on the Palisades |
Waltuch Gallery |
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DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2001 |
THREE WOMEN ARTISTSMIXED ART |
DOROTHY TURK HILL CHARNA KATZMAN AMY BANKER |
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ARTIST'S STATEMENTS
Dorothy Turck Hill
I am an architect. My early art and architectural experience was in Chicago. I attended school at The Art Institute of Chicago, The institute of Design, and graduated from the Architectural Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was then headed by Mies Van der Rohe. I later taught in the Architectural Department for seven years.
After moving to New York, and while my family was young, I freelanced in illustration and related fields and attended art schools in the area. I am an alumnus of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Later I returned to architecture and worked as a senior designer for I.M. Pei & Partners in New York.
I have always painted- before and during my involvement in architecture and since leaving that field.
Charna Katzman
When I paint, I paint my own reality. I use color, shapes, suggestions and subtlety and juxtapose all of that with wit and humor, always seeking the metaphor.
Amy Banker
I work in a variety of mediums: acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface techniques. I am exploring basic issues of opacity, color, form, depth, obfuscation and revelation in life, language and in art - I cannot help but be influenced by philosophy, poetry, literature, psychological symbolism, fairy tales, music, myths, conceit, and metaphors, especially of strong feminist models - women's conflicting roles in a changing time throughout the centuries.
I am using background in design 2nd and 3rd dimensional techniques and aesthetics. My background is integrated with my writing, psychology, my early childhood and life experiences evolving as a woman and mother combining international study to explore these issues in an organized by abstract way. I tend to reinvent the same themes, work from a structure and then proceed by distressing, demolishing, recreating and saving. My major themes are inner restoration and survival, challenging always reality vs. myth.
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