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.