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Texas artist Sydney Philen Yeager has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, Printmaking, Drawing and Artist's Books, the Grumbacher Award, the Cultural Arts Grant by the City of Austin Arts Commission and most recently the Austin Fairchild Art Foundation Award.
Ms. Yeager's 10 year survey, "Sydney Philen Yeager: Little Mysteries, Paintings 1992-2002," organized by the Galveston Arts Center will open April 5 and travel to four other museum venues.
In her statement about the new paintings at McMurtrey Gallery Ms. Yeager says: "These paintings are about motion; swarming, floating, wiggling, sprawling, swirling, squirming…all kinds of motion.
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The motion could be taking place in outer space, or just as easily, on a microcosmic, cellular level. Or in a swimming pool, or on a dance floor.
They are also about space, not outer space, but depth of field. I’d like the viewer to enter the paintings, wander a little, bask, roll over, get lost, find the way and get lost again. And finally, to emerge, refreshed, amused, annoyed, confused, but above all affected. If these paintings can accomplish that one thing, I’ll be happy.
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