Artist Tells

[Mattison]

Dichrome (dich...@yahoo.com) wrote:
: > San Jose, SoFA Art District, March 23, 1999....Internationally
: > Recognized SoFA Artist, MattisonFitzgerald emerges new works
: > 'Spirit Shower' and 'Gift from God' Series at what is SoFA's
: > hottest space for emerging artists South First Street Billiards.
: > March 31 Wed. 5:30 - 7:30 pm. 420 South First Street. The event
: > will be a benefit for the San Jose Junior Chamber of Commerce and
: > The Leukemia Society of America. Music will be provided by Polly
: > Moller and James Metzger and the reception is hosted by South
: > First Street Billiards.
: >
: > The two emerging series 'Spirit Shower' and 'Gift from God' are
: > handmade pastel on paper. The series were produced here in SoFA
: > and inspired by and Artists Residency Mattison did at the Santa Fe
: > International Academy of Art in Santa Fe 1998, New Mexico and
: > healing experiences the artsit had after a deabilitating car accident
: > last year in San Jose.
: >
: > The car accident forced Mattison to stop painting for many months
: > and to work on extremely smaller scales than she had in the past.
: > Mattison typically painted 6' - 15' canvas and she was forced to
: > paint 8" x 8" and eventually worked her way back up to the 24" x
: > 18" size. The pain in her body made it impossible to work large or at
: > length, but she feels the public will enjoy the smaller works due to
: > the "color and the richness of the pastels".
: >
: > The pastels are manufactured in the SoFA Arts District by world
: > renown Pastel Maker and Web Art Critic Mark Kramer. Mattison
: > says "working with Mark Kramers Pastels are like working with
: > velvet! It is a very sexy experience for the senses and the eyes!'
: >
: > The early evening event will encompass art exhibition along with
: > an art film screening of the short art film 'Pulsart' Seeing
: > Millennium ~ A Time of Great Happiness. This film was also
: > produced in SoFA and in Nice, France by Fitzgerald and Nathalie
: > Rafiy, Egyptian Animator, and was the first film from the Cannes
: > Film Festival to be aired on the internet in 1998. Fitzgerald says
: > "healing has always been a theme in my art due to challenges in my
: > life, tragic deaths and accidents in my family and due to suicides of
: > several of my friends throughout my life. It is important to me that
: > the healing energy I channel go into my artworks." and "when we
: > trasfered the art to the animated film it produced a wonderful
: > healing energy which is a visual miracle and I feel if they
: > used my films in the hospitals they could help aid the healing
: > process!"
: >
: > Fitzgerald and Raify have been asked to submit another short art
: > film to the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and are currently working
: > on that production with SoFA Midi Musician Anomoly123, Sean
: > Avery. Fitzgerald will be hosted at another Artist Residency in
: > France at the Art Academy Villa Arson this spring during
: > the Cannes Festival. Mattison says "after all the challenges I have
: > been through this feels like an amazing fantasy."
: >
: > Fitzgeralds work, life, and letters were also recently recognized by
: > the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Wahsington D.C.
: > and Who's Who in America and Who's Who inthe World.
: >
: > Fitzgerald still is dealing with pain everyday and says "after
: > painting 15' canvas you can try to paint lots of 8" x 10" canvas
: > which is really quite different and challenging in a different way
: > and pretty fun and that is what life is all about! FUN! Art is fun and
: > no matter what happens I will continue working because
:>FUN is what we need in this time of post cold war as it will help
:>produce more cyclic and balanced economic cycles. GO Have Fun! Do Art!"

: Di Chrome