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joan duff bohrer Duff Bohrer’s work features strong color and a loose painterly style, characterized by a construction and destruction of drawn shapes. Her current series involves layers of drawing of unrelated objects, selected for their unusual shapes. These layers and shapes later merge into a large color composition, presently involving birds and cages. The ‘merging’ process is dependent on imagination and chance. The artist is intent on the resulting painting having suggestions of human relationships. Choice, freedom, security, and alienation are strains of thought which sometimes direct the focus of the work. January 2010

"E Harmony"	These images deal with moods, thoughts, and observations. The drawings and paintings are titled after the artist has arrived at the completed image. Reflections
Impressions generated by world news is the impetus for these collaged, roughly surfaced oil paintings. The large bas relief assemblages incorporate found objects. Home	"Repeat Warning"
"Bulb"	Watching the gradual emergence of blossoms from the amaryllis bulb suggested growth in all its forms, human, emotional, and mental. Amaryllis
The transparent jar in each of these, refelects its surroundings, while at the same time makes a new distorted composition inside its glass walls. Glass/Flowers	"In the Library"
"Contained"	The contradiction of free flight and the confinement of cages directs this imagery About Birds
Broad Fields, undulating hills, shaded woods, ponds and streams provide patterns of contrast in texture and color. they represent my northern home. Sense of Place	"Blue Shadow"