art: Bulbs with Pansy
artist: Helen Meyrowitz
medium: drawing
“Otto Rank in his book – ‘Art and Artists’ tells us that art is often born out of a fear of loss and change. In late 2002, I became an up-rooted New York artist in the throes of a very real fear of change and loss due to an unexpected move to Massachusetts. A subsequent series of mixed media drawings of bulbs reaching, striving to put down new roots to grow and eventually flower is my chosen metaphor for my personal effort to create a new beginning. Otto Rank understood that creative challenge.”
Jurors:
- Karen Burgess Smith, Director of Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Gallery
- Vicki C. Wright, The Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire
- James Foritano, artscope writer