Portrait of Barb Siegel
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Barb Siegel

About the Artist

Visual Practitioner applying art in business settings. Education: Montgomery College, Takoma Park, printmaking Joyce Jewell and Nancy McNamara. The Corcoran Gallery School of Art (1985-92), studied sculpture with Bert Schmutzhart and F.L. Wall; University of Maryland (Master of Architecture, 1985), obtained DC registration 1988, VA and MD registered); University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA, English), studied ceramics with Don Reitz. Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2000. International private collections, multiple individual and group shows.

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Artist's Statement

Art should attract and invite questions. Texture and depth in this work encourages meditation. Occasionally, there is narrative to imagine what might be.

Featured Work

Photos

Large white area with three extensions. Background is midnight blue. All areas of paint have many layers so that the large field can be described as a block of color but there are minor shifts in color throughout. Some orange text, some text close to the background it is near. Mostly illegible text throughout.
Green, Yellow, Blue, Peach, Gray abstract with blue square reflecting complexity theory
vertical painting with large irregular white area and smaller areas of orange. Text is written in cerulean, white and orange
White painting with irregular grid of very small squares. Each square has many many layers of slightly different shades of white, so all squares are different.
oil painting of white background with text and lines in aqua
oil painting with mostly cerulean blue, white, and ultramine blue. A grid takes up 2/3 of the surface and text is written, though mostly illegible, on all of the painting