LYNDA HESS Lynda Hess' new work Anger received Honolulu Academy of Arts' Directors' Choice Award in Artists of Hawaii 2004, juried by Janet Koplos, senior editor, Art in America. http://www.honoluluacademy.org.
The painting Anger will also be seen in Lynda Hess- Body Language as part of: This and That,
Remember 9/11 at The MAC
Lynda Hess' Solo Show In my new work I'm exploring the link between our physical bodies and our unconscious. This link materializes spirituality, it is how "God" or the source or whatever you want to call it communicates to each of us. So it is literally the embodiment of spirituality. By focusing my works on physcialities, mostly with postures that allude to disturbed emotional or mental states, I'm trying to unravel the societal, physical and emotional residue that we each accumulate that keeps us from our source as pure spirit. To do this I allude to a wide range of spiritual traditions as offering paths that might have something to offer the pilgrim of enlightenment, or might contribute more to our confusion and problems. My works takes the form of a dream state because this is where we get our communication both directly from our body and from our source. So my paintings are like a dream state- confusing, surreal and mixed up with snatches that look like familiar reality. Also dreams use a "universal" visual language, which is ironically often incredibly difficult to decipher. But dreams communicate much like paintings using metaphor, puns and humor to make their point, so there is often a literal way into the code, which I often draw upon.
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