Friday 06th May 2016This week on Artist Spotlight, we're going to take a look at some of the incredibly dynamic work of Rosemarie Fiore. While the abstracts are exciting and intriguing in their own right, they way that they are created somehow manages to be even more dynamic that the pieces themselves: Her work is frenetic and beautiful, chaotic and colourful, and it's no surprise when you realize how she works. Fiore paints with fireworks.
Yes, you read that right. While it's not immediately clear how she manages to avoid setting her canvases on fire when she does so, she developed an entire series of works that are created with a wide variety of fireworks.
Her series of fireworks drawings was exhibited in New York by the Priska C. Juschka Fine Art gallery in 2009 under the title Pyrotechnics, but that's not the only way she has created. No matter what medium she's working in, whether it's fire, explosions or smoke, the process of creation is almost as important to her as the final piece.
In an interview with Second Street Gallery owner Leah Stoddard, Fiore explains her connection to her process: "I am interested in process, for it is through process that I am able to connect to a deeper meaning in my artwork. I use video as a vehicle to record some of my artmaking experiences. To me, all my videos can standalone, and the actual painting serves as evidence of the video. You can see that something occurred on its surface but you are not sure what it was until you view the video."
Watching her work is captivating, even hypnotic. You can find the videos of her working and the works themselves at her website, rosemariefiore.com, as well as learn more about her upcoming shows and her latest series, Smoke Paintings.
"Fireworks are explosives. They are violent, destructive and chaotic in nature.” How could one appreciate that and then not want to capture the beauty of their chaos? Not in the admittedly a bit prosaic (by now) visual displays that accompany our New Year's Eve and national holidays, but the beauty of how they operate, the force and dynamism that truly makes them what they are at their very core.
Posted on May 06th 2016 on 06:22pm