Donna Gordon
Artist Statement:
I’m both a visual artist and a fiction writer. My visual art is often driven by the desire to tell a story. Much of my work is based on the human figure—its shape, awe, and definition. I generally work large, 24 x 36, and increasingly larger. I’m both a painter and printmaker. Painting is focused now on the figure in the landscape. I work with acryla-gouache on paper. I also work with watercolor. Two printmaking series in progress are: “Broken Beauty,” a series of figurative monotypes, and “Double Vision,” a series of gum Arabic transfers.
I’m both a visual artist and a fiction writer. My visual art is often driven by the desire to tell a story. Much of my work is based on the human figure—its shape, awe, and definition. I generally work large, 24 x 36, and increasingly larger. I’m both a painter and printmaker. Painting is focused now on the figure in the landscape. I work with acryla-gouache on paper. I also work with watercolor. Two printmaking series in progress are: “Broken Beauty,” a series of figurative monotypes, and “Double Vision,” a series of gum Arabic transfers.
Artist Bio:
There is always so much more to learn. To spend time in life trying to interpret and convey human experience, in both words and images, is a gift I don’t take for granted.
Recent exhibitions include Fitchburg Art Museum, Bromfield Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Providence Art Club, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Featherstone Gallery, Concord Art Association, Cambridge Art Association.
My work with Amnesty International and former political prisoners culminated in “Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience,” exhibited at Harvard’s Fogg Museum. My debut novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, will be released on June 8th, 2022.
There is always so much more to learn. To spend time in life trying to interpret and convey human experience, in both words and images, is a gift I don’t take for granted.
Recent exhibitions include Fitchburg Art Museum, Bromfield Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Providence Art Club, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Featherstone Gallery, Concord Art Association, Cambridge Art Association.
My work with Amnesty International and former political prisoners culminated in “Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience,” exhibited at Harvard’s Fogg Museum. My debut novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, will be released on June 8th, 2022.
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