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.

Rebloom/Reclaim

For this body of work, what began as my attraction to the randomly created beauty of my paint rags and palette remnants evolved into a working meditation on the potential for reinvigorating my painting and for confronting midlife. I limited myself to working only with what I already had in my studio-the leftovers from many months of painting, scraps of wood and canvas, and a few tubes of paints. The pieces in this series "came into bloom" in the process of improvising with these materials-literally reclaiming them- during a time of consciously slowing myself down in my work and in life.

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