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An example of work by Shelbee Mares
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Biography from LeKAE Gallery:
| Shelbee Mares’ paintings are intended to reflect the duality of an artist bound by simple realities and freed by the transitory nature of light and shadow. It is present in the pause of window frames and grottos and doorways, and in the startling absence of gravity inhabiting her canvases.
Mares attributes her way of perception to her mother who had a a keen sense of light and color. “My mother showed me how to look at something and actually see it. We would sit in the grass and examine all the intricate aspects of a flower—the color, the shadow, the shape. Then she would point to the grass and ask me if I saw the blue and the yellow shades. At first I could only see green. But as she explained how colors are composed and how light reflects and what shadows are made of I began to see the world as an artist would see it. I couldn’t have asked for a better education.”
In many ways it is light and motion rather than flowers or the adobe walls of Taos that dominate Mares’ iconography. Severed from the bonds of representation, she directs her efforts to illuminate the drama and action of pure painting. Mares’ canvases examine the mythology of movement and celebrate the discovery of unknown territory. Her gifts lie in the brushstrokes that explore emotions and dreams and devotions, defining and resolving those challenges that extend above and beyond the architecture of our simple world.
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