Bio:
K Lobdell's art is currently an “Oil and Wax” journey where recent themes boldly move from natural to more humanist imagery; from shadows of an Ancient Willow to the illusion of an Urban Treeline. She employs a process that seems to ask, “I wonder what would happen if I use this, cover that, burn this, scrape that?” As the image reveals itself further, she deepens the “dance,” allowing the piece to continually inform her and move her until both image and medium meld into exquisite synchrony.
Her previous works have taken us into the soulful universe of provocative encaustic mixed-media “Faces” that press observers to answer; Who are we? Here too, her approach is multi-dimensional and unencumbered as it expresses historic hints from her prominent influences, a few include; Jay DeFeo, Sonia Gechtoff, Joan Mitchell, and Mary Abbott.
K’s Art has been shown in a multitude of settings from a West Seattle Gallery and Art Walk, to The Grey Cube Gallery “Skies” International Art Show, The Camelback Gallery Group Exhibition and “Faces” Competition, and is now showing in The Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition.
Originally from Holmen, Wisconsin - K resides now along the banks of the Cowlitz River in Toledo, Washington where her new endeavors involve the creation of moderate to larger abstract images. Her spirit continues to express that Life is the ultimate sojourn into balancing the Abstract and the Concrete, and that she is thoroughly caught up in that River’s Flow.
Artist Statement:
Is it Abstract? Is it Impressionist?... A mirage of both?
If the image takes one into a multiverse of the imagination, do labels matter? The individual decides.
“Cascading” leans into such a place, such an experience. It’s a place where the viewer can take in the layered edges and moving lines bound in subtle colors; an experience where the observer enters a journey into the scraped, scratched, impasto lain figure.
It becomes their story, their meaning.