Kim Marcucci

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As an abstract colorist, my work is about the painting process and specifically, the challenge of reflecting emotions through value, color, texture, shape, movement, and line.

For me painting is an intuitive interaction with each brush stroke. Therefore, the act of painting necessitates a high degree of trust, energy, presence, and awareness. My paintings are combinations of acrylic, charcoal, and oil pastels layered between acrylic mediums on gallery wrap canvas. I pour, mark, drip, lift, brush, scrape, build and erode the surface. The sequential layers of paint and markings reveal a new surface history. The resulting work is an internal response to the external world.

I have been painting for many years and work out of my Anchorage studio. Some of the artists that have inspired me are Wayne Thiebaud, Georgia O’Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler, Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Diebenkorn.