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Painting from
"the deep
heart's core"
Krupp's emotionally
charged
paintings blur the line between representation and abstraction. Her works are deliberately
open ended and invite narrative speculation and visual exploration of the varied painterly
expressions they contain. Inventing landscapes and images "remembered, imagined
and desired",
her imagery develops in the engagement with the paint, surface and other media. "I
never
know what the process will lead to-every painting is a journey and an exploration."
This
process driven approach serves the artist's aim to traverse the terrain of the unconscious
and the nonmaterial world.
A review in the
Providence Journal
of her first solo exhibit in 1994 said she "promises to be an artist to watch."
In
Art New England a critic wrote in 2004 that her newest collage paintings comprised
a "dynamic
series" that "fuse color and composition in exciting ways" and singled
out "Revisit:
The Source" as "an exquisite landscape of the mind.
In her own
words:
In the highly
commercialized,
increasingly homogenized landscapes we live in, painting can be a refuge-a place where
it is
possible to enliven a sense of connection to soul/ spirit, a link to a quality of experience
that is ancient and universal. Art that comes from "the deep heart's core"
to borrow
a phrase from William Butler Yeats, provides a source of we can return to again and
again for
introspection, reverie, refuge and renewal.
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