mixed media on canvas, 2007-2010
mixed media on canvas, 2010
mixed media on canvas, 2010 8 X 8 inches
mixed media on canvas, 2009
mixed media on paperboard, 2009
mixed media on paper, 2009
mixed media on canvas, 2007
mixed media on paperboard, 2008
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz work speaks of the inner life; of the unseen and the life of the spirit. Although trained in classical artistic method at Boston University College of Fine Arts (BFA ‘92), Dawn Spencer Hurwitz work reflects a knowledge of formal technique while exploring and pushing the range of abstract expressionism into the multi-sensory. Utilizing multimedia in 2 - dimensional work (acrylic paint /acrylic medium/ metal leaf/raw pigment) and aroma as a simultaneous 3-dimensional ‘scent sculpture’, Dawn compels the viewer to experience the work in new, deeply felt ways. The visual art work combined with aromatic translations express the emotional impact of pure color and the unseen experience we all carry within us; sometimes untouched. Dawn’s work has been included in group painting and photography shows in Boston, MA and Boulder, CO since 1992. She has been showing this new ‘multi-sensory expression’ work since 2009..
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is also a well respected professional fragrance composer and certified aromatherapist. She is a true underground force in niche perfumery. DSH, as she is called by her devoted following, has been designing aromas for nearly 20 years.. She has developed many innovative concept perfumes and worked with top designers to consult and create exclusive perfumes. Coming from a visual arts background, Dawn came to perfumery in 1991 developing her talent for creating perfumes based on fine art principles, and since the early nineties, began developing her innovative lines of ready-to-wear artisan perfumes under her own label. Since her first multidiscipline art project, passionflower perfume poems (a poetry / visual art / fragrance project, 1999-2001) she has continued to explore the conceptual dimensions of fragrance design including the "Perfume in a Poem" project (whereby by the Ezra Pound poem, "In a Station of the Metro" is translated into a perfume) as well as her own aroma color collection, "CHROMA"; translations of color into scent. Dawn is currently developing multi-sensory art installations and designing her second research collaboration with the Denver Art Museum.
“My work is about a purity of color that visually translates emotion and experience. The movement / brushwork expresses the transience of life and eternal change. I reference the magical, otherworldly feel of metal leaf that reflects the tradition of spiritual artwork of the past; as gold leaf has been utilized in religious work of the byzantine / renaissance periods in judeo-christian traditions as well as in traditional Japanese screen painting. I started my visual work within the traditions of oil painting and egg tempera / gilding but as I have evolved, I have transitioned to mixed media, working subject matter from life drawing and the external world to ‘essence’ and the internal world of spirit. It is a kind of distillation; a questioning of ‘how do we find pure essence? How do we feel our experience?’ This new work speaks to what our senses tell us.”
My visual influences are Hans Hofmann, Selina Treiff, J.M.W. Turner, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, George Tooker, Morris Graves, Robert Kushner, Fra Angelico, Piero della Franceso, Kandinsky, Chagall, Paul Resika, Michael Mazur and Stuart Baron.
- Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, 2010
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