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Book pages, acrylic, ink, thread, and charcoal
24″ x 24″ on cradled birch panel
My parents were of the generation that used slide rulers to perform complex calculations. Calculators became available when I entered college, and everyone used Hewitt Packard 12Cs. (Does anyone else remember using reverse Polish notation?) My kids grew up with Texas Instrument calculators. So when I came across an old TI 57 calculator instruction booklet, I used its pages to create an homage to the calculator in two abstract paintings.
TI 57, Subtraction is the second in a two-painting set of bold, gridded artworks using India ink, acrylic paint, machine and hand sewing, and collage papers.
Colorado artist Kathy Ferguson paints colorful abstract landscapes that are richly layered, botanically inspired reactions to her experiences with nature. Using combinations of geometric and organic shapes, she creates imaginary worlds using paint, collage paper, and ink. Her colors are often bold and saturated alluding to environments more illusionary than authentic, places more commonly found in dreams than in reality.
Her work is held in many collections including the Plaza Hotel in New York, the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, and the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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