Molly McMonagle

Visual Art – Seattle

The most important concept I address while painting is the process of unfolding. For me the moment of art happens when I first want to throw the painting away. There is a desire to destroy what I do because it doesn’t make sense. Pushing through that chaos with color, with ink, with the idea that something more will happen when I continue allows me to expel the discomfort that led me to sit down with a blank canvas. I create from unease where I try to let go of the outcome and paint with the process as it comes. The dissolvere | loosen apart series is a result of feeling stuck. The pieces question perception. Movement and color allow for a structural composition that seems to shift throughout the paintings. I prefer to let the colors change in a way that enhances and builds structure into the paintings combining colors as if draping tissue paper on skin. Color allows for a different language of motion and fluidity to move with the piece expressing emotions that I do not put words to.