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Primary Style: Abstract, Modern, Other
Credentials: Doctorate of Philosophy and Fine Arts
Career Level: Professional Artist
Experience: Mature Artist
Juried Artist: No
Represented by Galleries: No
Artist installs "Autobiography of Malcolm X, page by page For the last decade I have experimented in multimedia applications and digital technology to explore studio production and 2 and 3-D projects. I approach creative production as the merging of technologies of plastic and electronic form in which a traditional medium such as collage can be merged with contemporary computer technology formats and applications. Earlier explorations in paper technology now include my own photographs and digitized imaging and have stimulated my interest in autobiography and ‘visual memoir’. I am an artist-sociologist who produces art that addresses the social and spiritual, and research that addresses human rights issues. My written work is typically academic and has been published widely in the U.S. and abroad. As a visual artist and poet, I have been creative since my childhood and have referred to the art vocation as “the beautiful flight towards the light.” But I’ve been writing forever, from an early career as a journalist to my current interest in the power of the visual as a text. Inset: Chandler installing book pages at ICA/Boston exhibit.
Traveler I Digitized color photocollage and original photography on photographic paper. Actual image 7", mat with beveled inner edge included with image [16.5 x 20.25]The "Traveler" series draws on repeated patterns and iconic shapes in my collages-flying priestesses, gingko leaves, dancers, forms from nature, iterations of the female figure, mask spirits-all reduced to their minimal representational outlines. All of these forms have symbolic meaning for me. For example, my childhood was spent with sports and dancing; thus, the dancer in flight in 'Traveler' signifies the aesthetic power of dynamic motion.These basic forms are re-articulated, digitized, and recycled into other works. With the onset of digitization, I've recycled thousands of slides into digital formats to design new experimental works. The basic forms remain freehand constructions and are not created in programs.