Ronnie Spiewak at Harmony Hill

Seasonal Mix by Ronnie Spiewak

4 November-27 December 2013

“It Happened One Night” is a show of paintings and mixed media artwork by Ronnie Spiewak.

Ms. Spiewak’s inspired collage garden has grown wild and entangled, with strange organic forms.  Paper leaves and words swirl and settle in new and surprising patterns. Lines and shapes dance to their own energetic rhythms.

Spiewak says: “I’m a juggler of fragments and I’ve always been interested in setting and keeping things in motion.  I’m interested in creating a complete image by using disparate pieces to make the whole.  It’s a selective process about incorporating, juxtaposing and eliminating. It’s about finding and losing. It’s a method of working that echoes the ways I make choices in my daily living.

“Collage has always been a satisfying vehicle for expressing ideas and emotion.  The scissors and the exacto blade are my paintbrushes.  They help create line and shape quickly and crisply.  Paper has a 3-dimentional quality that I’m constantly exploring. There is a language of paper. Glossy, saturated magazine paper sings.  The color, plainness and usefulness  of  brown paper offers  an earthy quality.

“I am also drawn to the calligraphy of foreign languages, with it’s beautiful array of symbols and marks.  Hebrew newsprint, evident in many of my pieces, has become a way to symbolize dialogue, culture and timelessness.  It’s also a way to integrate my personal heritage into the work, reflecting on a culture of an ancient and simultaneously modern land.

The blend of language becomes a metaphor for the eyes and of the world.

My recent work combines collage with paint, and often just paint.  The work is inspired by nature, travel, words and people.  My current work is a departure from the past in which I used appropriated imagery from cartoons, comics, and pop-culture.”

The artist holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. She is an avid gardener. Spiewak works at the Passageways Studio in Riverdale, Maryland.


INFORMATION

Harmony Hill Regional Center
10701 Livingston Road
Fort Washington, Maryland 20744 USA
(301) 203-6070

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Monday-Friday, 8:30AM-5PM

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Image:
Seasonal Mix
by Ronnie Spiewak
collage
Courtesy of the artist