ARTIST STATEMENT : EDITH BORAX-MORRISON

"The process of drawing generates and defines my work. Images emerge from my unconscious in free flowing, personal, and detailed abstract configurations. From the earliest days in my art training, I became enamored with pen and ink as an art medium. Doing contour drawing with ink, pretending to trace the contours of the model with the pen without looking down at the paper, allowed me to create semi abstract versions of the subject. Through the years, while working and exhibiting in acrylics and collage, I continued to produce black and white drawings but never showed them in a gallery. In 2003, a dear friend and art curator to whom I showed the drawings urged me get the drawings out there. With great conviction I channeled all my energy into my drawings excluding all other forms of art.

Collecting masks and tribal art has been a passion of mine. Fascination with body painting, hair styles and the magic and mystery of rituals in primitive societies has had an influence on my work as well. In some of my earlier work I call “Mind Fibers” I used pen and ink to “wrap” and bind figures. My work of late deals mostly with abstract Images. Employing repetitive patterns, drawing intertwining “woven” threads and strings I work compulsively almost every day for hours, concentrating on one drawing until at a pivotal point I assess the complex patterns and make changes based on my formal training and present emotional response to the work.

In the latest series of drawings titled "Triangulations, " I combine small randomly placed circles with geometric forms and intricate internal patterns."

BIO : EDITH BORAX-MORRISON

Edith Borax Morrison was born in New York, N.Y., and currently lives and works in Trumbull, CT. She studied at the Art Students League of N.Y. and the Silvermine School of art, where she was recently inducted into the Silvermine Guild of Artists. Morrison has exhibited in solo shows in New York City on numerous occasions, and her work has been included in many juried shows, including Art of the Northeast (Silvermine Guild, CT), Hecksher Museum, (N.Y.), and the National Art League, (Douglaston N.Y.). Awards and prizes include National Competition, Purdue University (purchase prize) and Manhasset Art League, New York.

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