Member Artist Spotlight: Fielden Harper, Damon Reinagle, Sunny Kim

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I was born in Central Kentucky in an area that was rich in the crafts and the art of quilting. I spent as much time as possible with a grandmother who sewed as who surrounded herself with fabrics that appealed to her I can vividly remember the leftover shapes from the patterns she used lying on the floor of her workroom. I was fascinated by these, they looked like puzzle pieces and I considered them among my prize possessions. This body of work that is in process goes back to my childhood memories. Clinging fiercely to my roots, I am using fabric in as many ways as I can imagine and the ideas just keep coming!

In search of my artistic identity, I am constantly exploring avenues of the unexpected, whether that might be techniques, materials, or subject matter. With that said, I strive for a continuity of style throughout all my paintings no matter what the subject. My paintings blur the line between fantasy and reality, using recognizable images, caught in an imagined world of shape, form, color and pattern. They challenge what we consider reality with arrangements of art elements and techniques that invite the viewer to escape into their dream-like existence. Although not blatantly environmental, I continue to explore endangered animals as subjects. By setting them in unexpected, symmetrical compositions, I encourage my audience to lose themselves in a yet to be explored, hallucinatory territory.

I am drawn to images of the vast universe, the heavens and the meaning of what lies in the spiritual realm beyond the physical world we can see. My paintings may appear abstract at first; however, they are expressions of cosmic formations. Each canvas represents and symbolizes movements and colors of heavenly bodies and their celestial patterns in opposition—a state of both chaos and order!