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Inner Compulsion emerged from the idea of duration, repetition, and the relationship between body, time, and labor. These elements are embodied in black and red hand embroidery stitches on muslin fabric. The pieces are fictional autobiographies, constructing a visual narrative over a seven-year period, revealing an ongoing continuum. Through slow, deliberate marks, they disclose intimate tensions and psychological states, stemming from an inner force to understand the self in relation to everyday experiences. These works are methods of tracking one's being over a limited period, with repetition within the series capturing paused moments of transformation, fueled by memories, stories, and past events, reinforced by the present. This process is a highly intuitive study, creating slow drawings that serve as a visual record of time, reflecting history and its passage.

Artist Statement:

鈥淧ainting is a reflection of the soul. One paints their soul by borrowing the object. Without the spirit, what is black is only ink, what is white is only paper鈥�

- Yi MunYeol

Each painting here represents a special moment to me. A contemplative snapshot and earnest attempt to share the soul of a place and time through color, composition, and brushwork. In my
painting education I learned to accurately copy shape, value, hue and chroma. But these elements alone do not make a painting. Painting to me is a reflection or conversation, rather than a literal visual translation. The quote above expresses that essential element I strive to achieve in all my work.

My goal is to present you, the viewer, with the spirit of a place and time. Most of these works are painted on location. I believe that working this way allows the soul of a place to enter the artwork and transform it into more than the sum of its parts. With a successful painting, at some almost indiscernible moment, some key brushstroke or color transcends it from a simple representation into its own being.

Art making for me is a spiritual and intentional practice. My hope is for a painting to emerge as an almost accidental by-product of participating in still moments. Natural and spiritual discovery
is the true art, and painting is the material result. Through this process of outward and inward exploration, I aim to find something beautiful or unexpected and share that with the viewer.

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Artist Bio:

Andrew Woodward's cityscapes and landscapes emanate light and shadow interwoven within rhythms of time, color, contrast and depth.  Both intimate and vast, the paintings are portraits of architecture and nature, archetypes of an ever evolving world.

The Denver native received his BA from Kenyon College, OH, 1998, before living in Boston, MA for over a decade.  He returned to Denver with his wife and two children in 2012.

Woodward's paintings are currently represented by Coda Gallery, Palm Desert, CA and Arden Gallery, Boston, MA.  He won a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation in May 2015 and his works are in the collections of 1st Bank, Denver, CO; Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber & Schreck, Denver, CO; Cambridge Trust, Boston, MA and Cambridge, MA; Denver Grand Hyatt Hotel, Denver, CO; Farley White Interests, Boston MA; Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA; Kenyon College, Gambier OH; The Leadership Investment, Denver, CO; National Cooperative Bank, Arlington, VA; AMG National Trust Bank, Greenwood Village, CO; Renaissance Boulder Flatiron Hotel, Boulder, CO; The Thompson Hotel, Denver, CO; William Blair Investments, Boston, MA."

Known for working in pastels for nearly 30 years, Colette is a painter of contemporary landscapes that often blur the distinctions between realism and abstraction. The driving force behind her work is her interest in finding and amplifying the beauty and mystery that exists quietly all around us, both obvious and hidden. Colette is always looking for ways that the humblest scenes reveal profound insights and offer wordless understanding.