ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Both as a writer and as an artist, I feel what I can do is bear witness to the beauty, joy, kindness, tragedy and compassion that surround me. I've had the good fortune to have traveled and worked in many countries, from Afghanistan and Iran to Egypt, Venezuela and Brasil. People often quickly enter my heart… and I feel I become a bridge between my world and theirs. For years, I have captured this in writing. More recently I’ve once again started capturing these worlds in photographs.

Back home, I paint on my photographs with water colors, collage them, digitally enlarge them, paint on them again. And when I paint, something takes over. Maybe it’s the fluid, vivid intensity of the water colors. Maybe it’s the people and places that still linger in the vibrations of the original photographs and in my heart. Since Sept.11, 2001, my paintings also come from what’s close to home, as I continue to bear witness to the courage, grief and joy of the people and scenes that surround me.

I've worked with multi-media and photography for a number of years, and as a screenwriter and script consultant. I've taught word processing to veiled Islamic women in Egypt, shipped goods from Afghanistan for an importer, sewed the bindings on clogs at a sweatshop shoe factory along the Hudson and worked as a waitress in between. Traveling whenever I could. Everywhere seeking out the people, the colors and the story. Currently by day, I work as an Internet consultant for Latin American publishers. By night, I study African & Brazilian dance and I paint.

I have a B.A. in French from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Communication from the State University of New York.

Selected recent exhibitions include:

• Ormand Memorial Art Museum, Ormand, FL 2002
• Iran Association of Boston, Brighton, MA 2002
• Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA 2002
• Alex Echo Gallery, EastHampton, NY 2001
• The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; 2001

On-line Galleries

My art can be found in a number of on-line galleries.

OpenSewer

FOOD

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I'd love your feedback about my Art KOU KOU at mwinnig@comcast.net

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