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My paintings address a sensibility of the horizon and the volumes of open spaces. They are constructions based on theories of landscape painting scrubbed clean of the subjects usually associated with landscape. Some are distilled to the horizontal and vertical while others are formed with the assembly of line in formal landscape constructs.

I’ve been carving out these images of near and far, of atmosphere and veiled layers with a consistent group of media: oil, enamel or gesso on wood, watercolor on paper, or newspaper on wood- all to build a pared down emblem of space. I work through these depictions cyclically, going from one media to the next, each informing the other. My materials command the next configuration and my sensibilities unearth the atmosphere or mood of the space.

In my oil paintings I use the San Francisco Chronicle as my ground, cut up and assembled calligraphically to depict the space.

Joni Marie Theodorsen

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