gordon

Membership Info

Last Name

Bugbee

First Name

Gordon

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Media

watercolor, woodcut and etching, some acrylic

Statement

Drawing is seeing. I see nothing as clearly as when I am trying to trace with a pencil, pen or brush the boundaries of light and shadow, of color and form. The techniques of art exist to help the hand inscribe what the eye sees.
The images that grab me come from many quarters: the urban landscape, the gratuitous adornment of old buildings (did anybody but the architect and the masons ever see the ornamental brick and stonework?); "beauty" found in unexpected places; and, people in extreme situations.
This last kind of art is more than mapping of terrain and objects. It is an attempt to eavesdrop on the stories, relationships, and fates of human subjects - not objects, not the subject of my art-making - actors, agents, participants, and victims.
I draw to see. I draw to celebrate and to protest. I draw to know the world and to invite the world to know me. I will have "succeeded" if you have been moved or provoked or intrigued by what you have seen. I would love to talk to you about it.