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547 West 27th Street #200
New York, NY
Anne Diggory : Near and Far
November 26 - December 28, 2004
Reception Thursday Dec 5, 5-8 pm
Closing Reception Dec 28, 3-5 pm
Artist present on Saturdays
Paintings of the Adirondacks and Southern France
Many works play with juxpositions near and far, with shifting clarity and mystery.
The artworks that combine the close by with the far away are a celebration of the complexity of relationships seen, felt and painted. The manipulated spaces include deep passages in which the foregrounds either dissolve or serve as anchors. Additionally, the act of painting itself creates a tension between the near-at-hand surface and the evocation of a magical world of space, light and energy.
Two recent works (below) at first appear unfinished. In Hudson Lines the areas of minimal description spin around the dynamic forms of storm-felled trees at rest. I developed circular and angular rhythms amidst the malleable patterns within the trees, clouds and water. And then changed them many times, adding and removing detail to create an image of a tenuous world.
Hudson Lines (30x40")
In Carved Surface (14x11"), Roaring Brook Falls has carved out and cleared the rock face in the way that the painted areas have carved out the bare, flat surface of the panel:
The almost bare corner of Across the Way allows no foothold in the plunging space of the calanque near Cassis. The tiny beach goers are dwarfed by the scale of the cliffs and the geological forces that made them:
Across the Way (30x40")
A plunging space on a smaller scale inspired The Pool Below (24x24"), based on Hulls Falls near Keene NY :
The swirling energy of watery foregrounds dominates several works in the show:
Surface Tension (30x40") Ausable Pool (18x24")
Others include foreground elements that temporarily anchor the spaces:
Resting Place (11x14") Adirondack Fireworks (14x11")
Buck Pond Retreat (24x24")
Several paintings focus on the turbulence of the Ausable River, part of my larger project "Follow the Water"
Ausable Abundance (18x24") Ausable Serpentines (40x30")
A set of paintings from Southern France share many of the same themes.
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About the Artist: Anne Diggory frequently paints on location in Saratoga Springs, the Adirondacks, and on her travels to Ireland, France, Italy, Alaska and out West. Her hybrid works combine photography, digital manipulation and painting in a multilayered process and have been featured at The Albany Institute of History and Art and The Hyde Collection. Diggory's work has recently been featured in Adirondack Life, the Adirondack Explorer and Saratoga Living . She lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Online catalogue of hybrid work is at http:hybridvisions.diggory.com
Online catalogue of Saratoga Treescapes: Saratogatrees.diggory.com
Inventory of work up to 2002 www.diggory.com/cd
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