Barbara Slitkin
Barbara Slitkin · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Acrylic Paint, Clay, Oil Paint, Paper, Pencil/Colored Pencil, Recycled
- Practice
- Ceramics, Collage, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Works on Paper
Barbara’s art is influenced by an urge to understand the meaning of superconsciousness. She experiments with concepts and visions to hasten communication from within out. She is a process artist uncovering sensitive mate… Full biography
Biography
Barbara’s art is influenced by an urge to understand the meaning of superconsciousness. She experiments with concepts and visions to hasten communication from within out. She is a process artist uncovering sensitive material through the inner workings of the psyche.
As well as drawing and painting since she was five years old. Barbara Slitkin has been a model, a student of metaphysics, a wife,and a mother. She has performed, taught, and studied at various venues, art schools, and colleges. Received awards and honors for her art, written up in numerous publications, Barbara shows her work generously in the New York City area and is in private and Museum Collections worldwide.
"Barbara Slitkin is the blend of a skilled visual artist, a fun-loving performer, and a dedicated mystic." -Dagen Julty
Artist statement
"Hand over my own heart I ask How are you, sweetheart?"
Where are we going now? What would you like me to do? Art making is part of my earliest beginnings and the start of a spiritual practice that has very long roots. It is more than my livelihood it is my life and my way of being.
The artist in me is an inspired dreamer of the large dream. It is the climb out of the self and into life. I am grateful that Life has given me many blessings.
While in lockdown/pause have we noticed a Clearing of the Air? A friend voiced this to me over the phone a few weeks back. (Before the fires began out West.) Yes, we agreed, our skies have been cleaner. Yes, less pollution. Fewer cars, and airplanes. In a recent Solo show, I presented a theme depicting the fantasy adventures of a former black and white cat who had superpowers. I did not plan on painting about climate change, or to SAVE the Earth, much of my art emerged as things often do out of thin air, and a lighthearted sense of whimsy always letting images come, as they reveal themselves.
Inspiration is just paying close attention! Ideas spring forth one, after the other. Sometimes there is a theme or a general idea of what to do. That is not usually flushed out from the start, that happens as I go. Often, with a color preference. Textural elements often help to form images in the work. I sculpt 3D, and paint; my paintings often bridge both.
