Marie Vlasic
BMPP Study
(Nicolette)
Oil on Board
16" X 14"
Artist Bio & Press
Artist Statement
I have a strange
relationship with people. I am at once fascinated and repulsed. Fear
and loathing with a joyful embrace. This
duality in my at-odds psyche has turned
into an obsession, one which I express the only way I know how, and that is to paint. When I render the human
form, I am digging into the person,
pulling out what and who they are. I want to show their insides, for better or worse. By pushing and
pulling the paint, the light and the
shadow, I am laying them, and myself, bare on the canvas. It is my attempt to find the humanity, the
God-spark, in them, and in me.
There is nothing more
beautiful and horrible and lofty and base as a human being, and for
me, no other subject worthy of deep
exploration. I feel my soul in painting
the human form, and so the flesh is always calling me.
Only oil paint will do. I
fell in love with the medium, with it's soft, sensual feel and rich intensity of color in my first college
painting classes. I paint thin, in many
successive layers. This time-consuming technique gives my work a luminous quality. Because of the brief,
expressive nature of the images I am
creating, I work from photographs, many taken myself and some in collaboration with local photographers.
I am often asked which
painting is my favorite. The answer, the one I am doing now. The
process of watching each work unfold,
the moment when the flat canvas begins to
breathe, that is the fuel that drives me to keep creating.
Thank you for your interest,
M Vlasic
Marie Vlasic
BMPP Study
(Nicolette)
Oil on Board
16" X 14"
Artist Bio & Press
Artist Statement
I have a strange
relationship with people. I am at once fascinated and repulsed. Fear
and loathing with a joyful embrace. This
duality in my at-odds psyche has turned
into an obsession, one which I express the only way I know how, and that is to paint. When I render the human
form, I am digging into the person,
pulling out what and who they are. I want to show their insides, for better or worse. By pushing and
pulling the paint, the light and the
shadow, I am laying them, and myself, bare on the canvas. It is my attempt to find the humanity, the
God-spark, in them, and in me.
There is nothing more
beautiful and horrible and lofty and base as a human being, and for
me, no other subject worthy of deep
exploration. I feel my soul in painting
the human form, and so the flesh is always calling me.
Only oil paint will do. I
fell in love with the medium, with it's soft, sensual feel and rich intensity of color in my first college
painting classes. I paint thin, in many
successive layers. This time-consuming technique gives my work a luminous quality. Because of the brief,
expressive nature of the images I am
creating, I work from photographs, many taken myself and some in collaboration with local photographers.
I am often asked which
painting is my favorite. The answer, the one I am doing now. The
process of watching each work unfold,
the moment when the flat canvas begins to
breathe, that is the fuel that drives me to keep creating.
Thank you for your interest,
M Vlasic
