MFA show

gallery view.



Here are some close up.






“….the room will need to be imagined
by someone, perhaps some me
walking away now, who comes alive…”
Stephen Dunn, from The Room

Art exists right under the nose.
It resides in my everyday experiences:
In my husband’s sleepy smile,
In the reassuring clutter of my house,
laundry gathering on the bedroom floor,
a mountain of junk mail,
a greeting from my cat at the door.
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These paintings are filled with imaginary spaces constructed from discarded family photo albums and my imagination. Living rooms are resurrected, rearranged, reinvented and derived from a faded wallpapered past that never happened. The pictures hint at situations that could be both imagined or real thus, giving a new life to lost memories and new interpretations through the meditative process of painting.

Harumi Abe 2008