PERSPECTIVE
Perylene Red
About the Artist
Constance Kilgore received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado and a Master of Arts degree from New York University. She has studied with the late Elmer Bischoff and with Stanley Boxer, and was awarded a master teacher’s fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. At the University of New Haven’s Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Constance studied oil portraiture with Michael Peery, landscape painting with Jerry Weiss, and portrait sculpture with Bruce Papitto as part of the College’s Adult Studio Courses series. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in England and Estonia, and throughout the United States.
Crescendo Constance Kilgore Acrylic on unprimed linen 36 x 36” Painted in 2014
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“On my first visit to Estonia, I felt I met the sky for the first time. Summer evenings are long and golden, and dawn arrives very early. The low-lying landscape is flat, and the nearby Baltic Sea gives rise to magnificent cloud formations. I remember wading through high grass at 3 a.m. to marvel at the ever-changing drama overhead — the way the light tumbled inside the billowing clouds seemed symphonic. It was a moment
of deep inspiration, and the intuitive impulse to recreate the light and motion — the music of the sky — has remained. Pinning down a precise moment or movement seems futile if not impossible, but playing with the paint, and letting it find its own way until it resonates, is a satisfying process. In this painting, the luscious shade of Perylene Red has a vibrant, sonic light of its own, a crescendo.”
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