Early Works 1967-1979
I exhibited Draped Paintings at Kornblee Gallery N.Y. 1968 through 1972 including draped, some with infused sound, and pleated paintings run through pleating machines. A "Cotton Duck Thread Reading" work was included in the inaugural 1973 Whitney Museum Biennial New York. 1970’s I continued exploring feminist theory, joined women to form Heresies Magazine: A Feminist Journal On Art and Politics. I was a member of a CR group, and helped form some in NYC as well as one in Japan with a small group of women living near Nagoya Prefecture. Disturbed by a society built on bones of the disenfranchised, I supported actions of women demanding exposure in the male-dominated art arena. 1973-1977 I created “Dilated Grain Readings” and Scanning Paint Placements. I saw the latter as a need for mystery, to have paint show the struggle to exist separately from the ground chromatically built on, although simultaneously sinking into it.
Draped Painting W. audio, acrylic compressor spray, canvas, audio Ken Werner a.k.a Phil Harmonic. 48"h x 120"w x 6"d.
Acrylic compressor spray on canvas, 106"x 51" Hanging/Leaning show Emily Lowe Gallery, 1970.
Stefanotti Gallery, NYC
Draped Painting W. audio, acrylic compressor spray, canvas, audio Ken Werner a.k.a Phil Harmonic. 48"h x 120"w x 6"d.