Bucknell Univeristy's West Branch has published its latest issue
with Gina  Litherland's Nerrivik as the cover illustration.

 

Follow this link
to a video interview with Gina Litherland
at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee
during her solo exhibition "Queens & Vagabonds" in September of 2007.
 
 

Follow this link
to Elise Goldstein's review at Chicago Art Map
of the solo show  Murmur of Pearls: New Paintings by Gina Litherland
at Corbett vs. Dempsey in October of 2009.
 
 

Follow this link
to Mary Louise Schumacher's review of
Queens and Vagabonds at Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum.
 
 
 
 

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GINA LITHERLAND

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The work of Gina Litherland is represented in the midwest by
 

Corbett vs. Dempsey

1120 North Ashland, Chicago, Illinois 60622
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Don Juan in the Wilderness, 2008, oil on masonite, 22" x 24"

I have always been interested in the interplay between myth, the natural world, and the domain of dreams and memory. As a child, I spent many hours exploring natural wooded areas and empty lots inhabited by multitudes of insects and wildlife. This, along with a fervent interest in reading, particularly fairy tales, laid the foundation for my current investigations as an artist. Much of my work is inspired by folklore, myth, and literature reflected in my own personal preoccupations, specifically themes of desire, femaleness, the natural world, the human/animal boundary, children's games, ritual, intuition, and memory. The painting techniques that I use, traditional indirect oil painting techniques similar to those used by fifteenth century Sienese painters, combined with textural effects created by using various tools other than the paint brush, allow me to create a detailed, layered, and complex surface of images recreating the experience of looking at the forest floor with its rich blanket of diverse matter in various stages of decay. Suddenly, an object emerges and comes sharply into focus.

While some of my paintings begin with an idea that I have been ruminating over for some time, or are inspired by a particularly compelling book or folktale, others occur quite spontaneously, beginning with a decalcomania underpainting which suggests forms that emerge and develop into a personal narrative. The act of painting becomes a complete process of revelation. A mysterious narrative emerges, Rorschach-like, from a turbulent, chaotic ground of color and texture. Myths, dreams, memories, and phantoms of pigment suspended in medium are in continuous dialogue with one another. Dormant images ignite slowly, as our eyes adjust to their dark submerged brilliance.

-Gina Litherland, 1999

 
 

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