Broken Tube Light Let Loose

Description

"One is submerged in a world of riotous color and form while looking at a painting by Megan Bisbee-Durlam. Colored balls float through space, fleshy tubes and striped hoses wriggle and nest, and sgraffito drawings diagram unknown creatures. In this carnival atmosphere of serious play Bisbee-Durlam explores everything from the growth sequencing of plants to laundry hanging in a Barcelona street.

Like Kandinsky, Bisbee-Durlam has a synesthetic reaction to her surroundings. Color is felt and heard as much as seen. Her physical and psychological worlds meld, forming a simultaneous picture of both mental and spacial experience. "Organic storytelling" is the way Bisbee-Durlam refers to these works.

They are stories of heroic struggle and silly asides, an ever-shifting tableaux of emotional and physical phenomena played out in technicolor."

(Press release from Lohin Geduld Gallery in NYC)
http://www.artnet.com/gallery/423885474/lohin-geduld-gallery.html.

"Broken Tube; Light Let Loose" (2007) 48" x 48" x 2" mixed media on wood panel.

Added on Dec 14, 2009