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| IRENE'S PAINTINGS | |||||||||||
| In The Garden 1999 Egg-tempera on wood panels |
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| (triptych, doors closed) | (triptych, doors open) | ||||||||||
| In this view of "In The Garden" the closed doors of Paradise are shown with a flower motif. | Here, the doors are opened and Adam and Eve face away from Paradise. As they walk away, their previously golden halos start to deteriorate and night falls over them. | ||||||||||
| Dimensions closed: 12 x 18" | Dimensions open: 24 x 18" | ||||||||||
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Quarry Series #1 Oil pastels on paper, 1988 |
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| This drawing was done in Florence after the artist visited the Carrara marble quarry in Pietra Santa, Italy. The pulleys represented here are part of the old equipment used to mine the marble out of the mountain. Now, they are an abandoned piece of machinery as they have been replaced by diamond saws. (Collection of Gilberto Cardenas, South Bend, Indiana) | |||||||||||
| Dimensions: 161/2 x 121/4" | |||||||||||
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Quarry Series #3 (diptych) 1989 oils on paper |
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| In this piece, the artist continues the exploration of the feeling of abandonment she experienced while contemplating these pieces of discarded equipment. It spoke to her of the way our society abandons the old (as in the elderly, customs, beliefs, history and much more) and readily forgets it or ignores it even when it is part of our landscape. (Previously in the collection of Deanna Rodriguez, Austin, TX; recently traded by the artist for an icon.) | |||||||||||
| Dimensions: 22 x 60" | |||||||||||
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Quarry Series #4 (triptych) 1989 oils on wood |
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| Dimensions: 72 x 48" | |||||||||||
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Ghost mixed media on wood, 1989 |
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| This is the last of the quarry paintings. | |||||||||||
| Dimensions: 48 x 48" | |||||||||||
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Cycle oils on paper, 1994 |
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| This painting contemplates the cycle of life and death and the passage from one to the other. | |||||||||||
| Dimensions: 22 x 30" | |||||||||||
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All you need is a ladder oil on wood, 1994 |
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| This piece contemplates the ladder or path the spiritual seeker must climb in order to reach the goal of Truth. | |||||||||||
| Dimensions: 161/4 x 121/4" | |||||||||||
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Icon oil on wood, 1995 |
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| In this painting, the artist set out to make a composite image of Christ and Krishna. (Collection of Jose Silva, San Antonio, TX) | |||||||||||
| Approx. Dimensions: 12 X 12" | |||||||||||
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