Katherine Spindler: Paintings for Disappearing

Reflecting on her practice in general and more specifically this new body of work the artist notes: "What has painting to do with disappearing? By its very nature, the act of painting makes visible. In the studio we work to fold ourselves into our work entirely, we work to disappear. This is an art as much as it is a mystery. To disappear in one sense is to appear in another. We disappear in the making as we disappear in the reading, and in the feeling. As artists we make to find our way. We make to see, to feel, to move through. Much like we do in speaking, or in writing, we can surprise ourselves with what we say we see. We move between the details and broader views from day to day - as we grow - between what we see with our eyes and sense with our hearts. My paintings consist of layers of indecision. I know of no other way than simply to begin, and I do so having little idea of where the work is taking me. All paintings go through their “ugly phase”, or - as my high school students have told me - their “adolescence”. I have come to trust the “not knowing”, to understand that in the end these early marks and layers enrich the final painting in ways no other approach can. Painting is a delicate play between accident, impulse and control.