HoboEye Art:
Melinda Altshuler, CA, USA

Artist Statement:
I make sculpture with paint and paintings with objects. My process of art making is meditative, where a quiet joy is part of each finished piece.

I work with materials but mostly with translucent paint medium as a building material for sculptures. These works are prepared with many translucent layers, painted and suspended within the framework of appropriated objects. The skin-like quality is delicate but strong enough to take on each form. Some of the appropriated objects are recognizable and others are not while some are found materials morphing into an armature. Sizes range from a few inches to a few feet wide or tall.

The translucent paint medium allows space to become the object but it also becomes a lens to magnify the light and shadows that travel through and beyond the piece. Translucency is also a metaphor for honesty, as in something that you can see for its clear truths.

My examinations of space, not just defined by the object of art but by it's cast light and shadows, has always been informed by environments with strong light.

Altshuler's early art education was apprentice-like with a European artist, Samuel Markitante, in traditional painting techniques from the ages of 9-14 and later attended California State University Northridge and UCLA. Melinda Smith Altshuler lives and works in Southern California.

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