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Beyond the rectangle.


I'VE BEEN PAINTING for over seventeen years. I started studying art after receiving a business and communications degree and while working professionally. I'm very committed to creating and have always made the time for and done artwork while working full-time, or almost so. I try to blur blur (blur) indistinctness, clouding, or fogging.

spectacle blur  the indistinct vision with spectacles occurring after removal of contact lenses, especially non–gas-permeable lenses; it is
 the line between "corporate" and "art" life and believe they inform and influence each other. I wish more people could, or would, enjoy that luxury. I'm interested in moving beyond the rectangle with my paintings and often break up space with lines that evolve and dissolve and wander off the edges. I also play with movement. I wonder if people feel that when they look at them. There have been few reports of motion sickness motion sickness, waves of nausea and vomiting experienced by some people, resulting from the sudden changes in movement of a vehicle. The ailment is also known as seasickness, car sickness, train sickness, airsickness, and swing sickness. . Recently, I started focusing on photographs as much to keep clean and avoid fumes fumes

odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema.
 as to draw upon the more spontaneous and observer aspects of the medium. As you might suspect, similar themes emerge--form, dramatic shape, strong color, line, movement--as those in my paintings. However, the photographic images tend to be more buoyant Buoyant

The term used to describe a commodities market where the prices generally rise with ease when there are considerable signals of strength.

Notes:
These types of markets can be very volatile as the prices are rapid to rise and fall with investor sentiment.
 and playful play·ful  
adj.
1. Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive: a playful kitten.

2.
 than the paintings. Maybe I should qualify that. I believe at least that may be true for the viewer. You should see what happens in the studio! Paint flies.

Since 1991, I've exhibited my work in various spaces in the US (only once or twice a year at best) and was included in an exhibit traveling through Eastern and Western Europe Western Europe

The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO).
 in the early 90s. I have been active in the arts community of the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
 for over a decade and participate in local art critique groups that meet regularly to discuss work in progress.
Vibration, undulation
Perpetual motion, evolution
Light, dark, positive, negative
Harmonious contrast
Shadow image, temper shadow
Modifying, surface flickers and follis
Dancing, shaping, constant and erasing
Orchestrating
Dance, dance, dance, move, stretch, reach, curve
Over
The mind's edge, it isn't there
You put it there
Now, erase it and start over
Dance, dance, dance
The lyrical vibration
Over & over & over
Somewhere over
There is no rainbow
Over there was no rainbow
Katie Croke
Lyrical Paintings '04


Copyright [c] K. Croke 2004

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KATIE CROKE, PAINTER
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