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Upstream Pandemonium

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Upstream Pandemonium

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Statement

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My life is about motion and emotion and so is my work. I am inspired by professional dancers who use the miracle of their strong, perfectly trained human bodies to create art by interpretting music.

Like their movement and the music that moves them, I like to use repeated patterns, flowing, organic strokes and brilliant colors.

There is usually no particular focal point in my pieces, so the design seems endless and edgeless. Wandering lines that disappear and reconnect provide unity and flow and I believe different shapes, textures and interruptions provide interest.

My experience as a dance photographer can show up in rudimentary shapes of dancers in both my abstract photographs and paintings. There are also tiny scenarios, objects and faces within my pieces. People all tell me different stories about what they see and find within my works.

Reviews

"Upstream Pandemonium" was chosen to be included in the 2001 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit. Doug Hanson, Art Critic, wrote in his review of that show for the Free Time section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Abstraction in its purer forms is found in just a handful of artists such as Polly Norman, who keeps alive the tradition of Jackson Pollock."