HOPE CONNER
While it’s the material itself that drives my work, my images are always based on experience and life changing events.
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The whiteness blankets chaotic color underneath, mirroring my own desire for control over life’s frequent unmanageability. Like a scar or scab that refuses to heal, the paintings are multiple, thick layers of paint that are sliced through to reveal only a portion of the surface underneath. All the color that is seen is only what’s revealed through these etched lines. Games and antique toys represent some of the most recent work. I use simple games such as Skee-ball and Battledore and Shuttlecock (modern day Badminton) to convey the positive and negative sides of competition in life: while improving strategy, dexterity, and reasoning the player is also learning of gambling and risk taking. The diptych format in the larger works continues to reinforce this idea. Hope Conner |
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