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South Coast Artists' Alliance
Joan Margolies-Kiernan
"The Return"
$ 150
Black sharpie and water-based oil paint,
12" x 12"

Joan Margolies-Kiernan
"Stand Alone" (second piece)
$ 200
Black sharpie, water-based oil paint on Arches 300 lb watercolor paper, framed in a white contour frame
20" x 16"

I reach toward the unknown by spontaneously drawing lines across blank water color paper with a black sharpie. This unconscious process of mark making encourages a meditative state that allows me to enter into the unseen world that surrounds everyday existence. I develop an infrastructure from which abstract figurative images emerge. I continue completion of the image with water based oil paint to defines shapes withing the drawn lines.
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