Wednesday, June 29, 2016

I saw the rainbows and I danced with them




“I saw the rainbows in my studio and I danced with them.”

When I paint, my aim is not to try reconcile the conflict between chaos and order – to soften the hard edges of disorder and find a harmonious center or whole and then to soften the hard edges of disorder or make everything monochromatic. I believe that life is not that way. We become disillusioned when we try to make it something other than what it really is.  Life is bumpy and playful. It can be a marvelous ride if we don’t try and make it something that it is not.  When I look outside and watch the wind blow the tops of the trees, I ask myself,  "How in the world could I capture that movement, that dance without destroying its beauty?" 

My aim when I create is to honor the movement, the wind and the differences in it.  These differences, this otherness like the wind is unique, individual and independent. Yet, at the same time, it is part of a whole - a whole where not all things fit together like a jig saw puzzle, But, it is where everything fits because uniqueness and individuality are respected and honored. They are an "otherness," a difference that exists in chaos.

I deeply respect and see this uniqueness and individuality.  I respect and look for the independence that it can create for it is where I believe a freedom exists. Freedom should båe unfamiliar and abstracted like the wind.  This abstraction, this unfamiliarity connects and expands for me. As I begin a painting, I am extremely comfortable with it and how it moves and struggles and plays during the whole process of creating. I don’t try and catch it. Just like the trees, I try to dance with it and move with it. This unfamiliarity allows me to explore. It allows for me to have my own struggle. For me, I find the struggle extremely genuine and very authentic. I find sheer pleasure and erotic ecstasy in creating when I dance with the wind. I see the cards that I have been dealt and I play them when I can, and try to fold them when I can’t dance with the wind.

“I saw the rainbows in my studio and I danced with them.”

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Friday, January 15, 2016

"Fish In The Reef"




"Fish In The Reef" was juried into the "Rockies National Watercolor Exhibition that is being held March 1-April 2, 2016 at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts.  What a wonderful time to be in the Rockies.  But, then being in the Rockies is always a wonderful, anytime.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Park Bench





"Park Bench"
She came everyday
listening
to the sweet song
the blue birds
sang.
She came everyday
watched
blue birds dance.
Tiny sky blue wings
waltzing with the
wind.
The park bench is
empty these days.
The blue birds
still
serenade and
dance
with the wind.
She knows it is
time to return.
To dance
with the
wind.
- Christine Alfery

Monday, December 28, 2015

Solo Exhibition





I'm getting ready for my solo exhibition at Gallery 210 in the Plymouth, Wisconsin at the Center for the Arts.  January 25 - Feb 12. The title of the exhibition is "The Journey"  and it includes works from my Ladders and Fences series.  This piece is called "Pink Diamonds." The exhibition includes both poetry by me and by other Wisconsin Poets. Below is the poem that I wrote that goes with this work.

Pink Diamonds

the sky the all of
every
thing
silver sun moon
stars polished
diamonds
adrift
in the music of silence
you
going
gently
moving
float
float float
ing
in the last days
of moving waters
pink
diamonds
adrift
in the music of

silence

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

"Cabin Along The Shores Of Lake Superior"





"Cabin Along The Shores Of Lake Superior" has been accepted into the "Midwest Seasons" exhibition at the CVA in Wausau, Wisconsin. I am honored to be part of this marvelous national exhibition in an outstanding gallery at the Center for the Visual Arts.



"Pink Diamonds"




My "Pink Diamonds" painting is in the book for my upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery 210 in Plymouth Art Center. The exhibition is a retrospective which will feature some of my "Ladders and Fences: The Journey" paintings and poems by Wisconsin poets. I will send out details on this exhibition soon.

Pink Diamonds

the sky the all of
every
thing
silver sun moon
stars polished
diamonds
adrift
in the music of silence
you
going
gently
moving
float
float float
ing
in the last days
of moving waters
pink
diamonds
adrift
in the music of

silence