Artist Studio Visit – Dorothy Deon
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:00-2:30 pm
Please contact AHL Foundation at 516-983-3935 or info@ahlfoundation.org
Dorothy Deon is a visual artist. She graduated from Ewha Woman’s University and studied at Fashion Institute of Technology and Art StudentLeague. She had more than 30 solo exhibitions and about 50 group exhibitions around the world. When she was young, she was an accomplished interior designer. But she did not give up her passion for fine arts.
As a devout Christian, she wants to create a glorious vision of God. In her works numerous dots in luminous colors form a series of circles or flowers. Her canvases are covered with the rhythmic movement of blissfully dancing colors and the waves of light spread far and wide. She adds texture and patterns to the surfaces of transparent film by luminous dots of myriad colors. These small circles are composed of acrylic, sometimes gel, painting liquid, stained glass pigment and glitter. Thus her film “canvas” looks like a gigantic close up of a flower or dark sky filled with twinkling stars.
At the same time, her images of gardens, flowers, starry nights, and breath of life are arranged in 8, 12, 16 pieces of grid. In single or clusters, her images keep consistency of representing the glory and the harmony of the universe. Her biggest subject of life and glory on earth and heaven has been pursued for more than thirty years of her artistic journey. At her studio, people will be able to catch a glimpse of a magnificent, yet intimate domain of her creative passion.
