ARTIST’S STATEMENT

MONOPRINTS AND SCULPTURE

Deborah Winegar' s monoprints and sculpture reflect the artist's  interest in collage, the unconscious, and spontaneity.  She works with found objects in various materials.  She has a love of color, texture, and whimsy. 

Her work emerges as a dream does.  It speaks through materials, images, composition, and color. This process involves trusting her unconscious to know and to speak to her through her materials in various mediums.   Later she discovers what it means to her and a title emerges.  Her many years of being a psychoanalyst inform this trust in not knowing and in her own creativity.  Doing art parallels dreaming and dream interpretation.           

Her monoprints also have a surrealistic quality in both content, use of vivid color, and spatial relationships.  They have a simplicity and primitiveness that feels archetypal like a folktale offering us a message to guide us in our life journey.  Her work reflects her passionate interest in the unconscious.    

She has developed a unique visual language that is both spontaneous and complex, and expresses unusual, humorous metaphorical relationships. The work reads on several levels - literal, abstraction, and metaphor. The figurative elements are experienced as totems. 

 Her work also can be understood as a visual exploration of the process and existential experience of discovering one's true self or "the journey of transformation".  The true self includes archetypal animals such as , "shrink dog"  (a dog smoking a pipe), imaginary birds with a variety of personalities, male and female aspects, and the natural world.  In every creation there in a transformative journey for the artist and hopefully for the viewer as well.

PASTELS

This new body of pastel paintings emerges from my interest in drawing the human figure.  I have done life drawing religiously for 25 years.  I take pleasure in the psychological, spatial, and expressionistic aspects of the figure.