The Art Gallery
Local artists from around Indy.
Mallory Marty
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Creating art is an escape from reality. I am interested in the sensuality and symbolism of costumes and disguises. The images of corsets play with sexuality and feminine identity. Stemming from a theme running through many Dutch paintings of domestic women, my work plays with the idea that a birdcage could symbolize a woman’s sexuality. Whether the bird was flying about the room or securely locked in its cage suggested the promiscuity or the virtuousness of the domestic female respectively. Inspired by optical toys, such as the stereoscope, thaumatrope, and kaleidescope, much of my work is interactive in a voyeuristic way. I want my work to flirt with the viewer.
Jp Leinendecker
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Lydia Burris
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Artist Statement My aim as an artist is to explore. At times, I allow chance (automatism) to play a major roll in my creation. I am inspired by dreams and fleeting ideas, strange characters and ambiguous emotions. Transformation and the idea of transience are common themes in my work. I grasp onto those things which have no concrete title, and images that fall through the cracks of direct understanding. At times there will be beauty and abstraction, humor, and darkness. Faces accompany emotions, figures follow shapes, and organic forms inspire metaphor. I often give life to shapes or organic forms by inserting a human element. When I am in the studio, I seek new ideas. I work in mixed media. I search for and collect objects and materials to use in my work. I play with textures and colors. I also use digital tools to create remixes of the art I create physically. I always carry a sketchbook that I work in daily. My driving force is to carve my own winding path. I can only hope that others may follow along and discover with wonderment, the unexpected things I uncover.
Susan Fleckenstein
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